Cures by Jo Brandon James Brookes Dennis Casling was blind and

Dennis Casling was blind and as a poet he described what he saw working from visual memory

making bed-fellows of poems rarely seen together

One was an artist

A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

Her endeavour to publish in a variety of genres had mixed receptions

Cures by Jo Brandon James Brookes Dennis Casling was blind andFrom a sapient pig to human extinction, syphilis to broken bones, a woman who births rabbits to changelings in the crib, this collection explores the full range of human fallibility as well as the eternal quest for hopefulness. Cures is filled with strange characters: volcanic women, a rat catcher on the brink of retirement, a bonesetter, a drunkard, a mermaid; the collection is brimful with both the uncanny and the familiar, exploring the joys of