news | Friday October 3, 2025

Reviews of Three Talonbooks Titles in Some Magazine

The latest issue of Some Magazine is out and we are so pleased to find three in-depth reviews of recent Talonbooks titles in its pages! In the summer 2025 issue’s pages, Jamie Hilder writes about Future Works by Jeff Derksen, Scott Innis shares his thoughts about Tiziana La Melia lettuce lettuce please go bad, and Clint Burnham reviews 2025 City of Vancouver Book Award–finalist cop city swagger by Mercedes Eng.

Of Future Works Hilder pens: “‘How do seeds know how to tree?’ is … a good question …Figuring out how to see a tree’s constant and sustained activity … is the work Derksen invites us to take up. We all need to learn how to tree.”

From Innis’ review of lettuce lettuce please go bad: Creatively and abundantly multiform … wildly germinal … full of endless budding, flowering, and cross-pollinating.”

Clint Burnham calls cop city swagger “powerful and convincing.”

To read all of these reviews and more, pick up a copy of Some Magazine here.