Jeswin Thomas Reviewed by Scott Neuffer Tolu Oloruntoba’s new poetry collection, Unravel (McClelland & Stewart), offers something strangely mesmerizing — a deconstructed mind tethered to what it haunts. It’s a dynamic collection impossible to pin down but about which I can provide some descriptions that hopefully point to certain forces of a groundbreaking work. Oloruntoba, a trampset contributor, describes himself on his website as a lapsed physician. He practiced medicine i

by Tolu Oloruntoba Florian Olivo By parakeet, I mean one of the books that speak to me in recto and verso blurs round my head, a songbird self, a voice I can bear to listen to. Call it budgerigar, its bungie hook coos talking, then strapping me down. By a parakeet, I meant more parakeets, levitating meathooks to halt my free fall. Next time. I am more prone to helium jumps, and osmium sways, and tightrope thoughts, now. Train platforms remind me of fragility. The laundroma