Review at Rattle
At Rattle, Michael Meyerhofer says, "These poems are stylistically unique, mostly short (often just a
few lines) with an obvious stream-of-consciousness vibe to them, but
what really makes them leap off the page is their underlying tenderness,
their unabashed examination of the human condition that reminds me of
those famous Chinese poets, Li Po and Tu Fu."
Review at Green Mountains Review
At Green Mountains Review, Stephen Lloyd Webber says, "Through If I Falter at the Gallows, there’s a sense of
religious constraint that seems to stem from the city and from the
pressure of being in society, now. These are poems of the mind with
plenty of “is,” joking uneasily with the rhythm of the way things are."
Review at Murder Your Darlings
CL Bledsoe says, "Despite their brevity, these are difficult poems to skim; they demand
attention simply because Mullany’s writing is quite powerful and because
the scenes resonate."
Review at Cutty Spot
At Cutty Spot, Matthew Sherling writes: Mullany has "a similarity w/ the old Japanese haiku masters...offering a ‘suggestive’ image pregnant w/ possibilities..."
Review at The Collagist
In a review at The Collagist, Andrew David King writes: "An encyclopedic collection of poems mostly ten lines or shorter, If I Falter at the Gallows
picks away, chisel-like, at themes and topics that other poets dedicate
multiple pages to: selfhood, the self's confrontation with the objects
of the world, the variant natures of this world and its objects."
Review at VICE Magazine
In a brief review (at the bottom of the page), Vice Magazine's Giancarlo DiTrapano says "these are little still lifes, Mullany's poems, little cubes in my whisky ..."
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