Thank you Val and Thank you Mike for twisting her arm just enough. What a celebration of what to me, is real poetry. No under or overtones - though subtle with imagery; no resort to cathartic misery - just the pure joy of verse.
If I were to go all Craig Revel-Horwood on it, and it's maybe because I haven't grasped the flow, some of the line breaks seemed misplaced. Like in Africa
'perceived as too frail
to cross the ocean' - that sort of thing.
And in Sunlit, I'd hyphenate cure-all so the reader understood (or again, am I the eejit who diddle understood?) the meaning.
Intercession and Lorca's Rose, I'm still trying to get - Lorca is guessable, though I don't read him. Intercession I though 'rainbow', but I'll get there. Best Sunday read of 60 Odd for me, ever.
Thank you Val and Thank you Mike for twisting her arm just enough. What a celebration of what to me, is real poetry. No under or overtones - though subtle with imagery; no resort to cathartic misery - just the pure joy of verse.
If I were to go all Craig Revel-Horwood on it, and it's maybe because I haven't grasped the flow, some of the line breaks seemed misplaced. Like in Africa
'perceived as too frail
to cross the ocean' - that sort of thing.
And in Sunlit, I'd hyphenate cure-all so the reader understood (or again, am I the eejit who diddle understood?) the meaning.
Intercession and Lorca's Rose, I'm still trying to get - Lorca is guessable, though I don't read him. Intercession I though 'rainbow', but I'll get there. Best Sunday read of 60 Odd for me, ever.