To 2040

Graham writes with urgency, confronting the near future as something already pressing on the present. The poems feel like weather systems—complex, shifting, full of pressure and sudden openings. Graham's language is intellectually dense, but it's powered by emotion: fear, grief, love, and an insistence on attention. The collection interrogates time, asking what it means to live in an era of crisis and acceleration. Lines move by interruption and pivot, mimicking thought under stress. There's a strong sense of moral address: the poems speak outward, as if trying to reach someone before it's too late. Nature appears not as pastoral comfort but as a register of consequence. Reading this book can feel like being asked to stay awake. Yet within the urgency there are moments of startling beauty. The poems insist that language matters because it is one of the few tools we have to face reality. A fierce, challenging collection.