Ganapathy Kumar Medusa Retold by Sarah Wallis, Fly on the Wall Press, 2020 Reviewed by Scott Neuffer Greek myth can be cruel to women. Take Medusa, for instance. Abused by the gods and turned into a monster. Weaponized to turn others to stone. Scotland-based poet Sarah Wallis inverts this myth in her highly imaginative coming-to-age chapbook, Medusa Retold . Meet Nuala, the heroine of this long-form narrative poem. A “headstrong girl with her outsize feelings for the sea and

by Sarah Wallis The Now Time Cinderella sips her wine, tries not to choke, breathe the liquor down, everyone seems to be looking, they all know her story, she doesn’t know theirs and he’s left her on her own again at a ridiculous party, she can’t handle, looks around at the spinning, smiling faces, finding her feet, plucking up courage to speak when a group movement takes hold like a dance, the twitchers and her Prince Charming are leaving the pub en masse, a swooping flock,