nicktomjoe's review
5.0
The spare language and subject matter are instantly engaging: her elegy for the loss of Roman culture “Poem found at Chesters Museum” is clever and moving; her poems on Avebury and Rain -Birdoswald show deep sensitivity to place and history. In some ways her project dances in poetry round Alan Garner’s novels. She is at her most moving confronting death, whether examining a sheep’s skull or brutally exploring her own grief at her own impending death. She writes of sex with the same precision (“Do you not know I need to touch you/as I touch a fruit or child?”) as she uses on nature (“crows flail home.”)
Utterly magical.
Utterly magical.
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