Review short: Cath Keneally's eaten cold

In <em>The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism</em>, T. S. Eliot famously wrote, ‘Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.’ Cath Kenneally’s <em>eaten cold</em> offers a chain of indelible response-poems to New Zealand poet Janet Charman’s book, <em>cold snack</em>. In Kenneally’s collection, ‘Meanings perpetually <i>ein</i><em>geschachtelt</em> into meanings’, creating new and original poetry that riffs off Charman’s book without ‘imitating’ or ‘defacing’ it.