This is a sharp, intelligent poetry book that sits comfortably in the lineage of language-aware, post-conceptual writing fully confident in its tics and twists. 

Lieblich works with fracturing form, tonal interruption, and deliberate awkwardness, but there’s a human grain underneath the formal play — moments of sincerity that feel earned rather than signposted.

Published by Aesthetic Calculations, Clear-cut as the Words belongs to a contemporary Australian micro-press ecology that values risk, compression, and editorial intent over scale.

It’s a book for readers interested in how poetry thinks about language itself. Because, words cut, fail, repeat, and misalign, that's the beauty of it, and something poetry does best to enlighten.