Keri Glastonbury’s new poetry collection, 51 Alterities is a humorous riff on austerity and otherness, which arrives on the page, in part, as a reimagining of Sam Riviere’s 81 Austerities (2012). Like Glastonbury’s Newcastle Sonnets, this collection is self-satirising, as it takes a humorous swipe at the ‘tech-bro-ligarchy’ of 2025 as well as ‘family geometries’. 51 Alterities: pushes the sonnet formIf Glastonbury’s Newcastle Sonnets bent the sonnet sequence, 51 Alterities pushes beyond the 14-line form, leaning into free verse and prose poetry. poetry’, in a work which offers a playful list of things J K Rowling would ‘turf’ and O J Simpson would consider ‘appealing’. 51 Alterities by Keri Glastonbury[goodnight John-Boy] asks ‘where does your family sit on the Walton’s trauma scale.