The Pot of Earth and the Iron Pot by Ruth McIlroy F Starik and through the complex labyrinths

and through the complex labyrinths of the modern age

Jeremy Reed and Wendy Cope

and acts of unkindness closer to home

’ – The Daily Mail

Othello's intertwined identities as 'immigrant' and 'Black'

The Pot of Earth and the Iron Pot by Ruth McIlroy F Starik and through the complex labyrinthsI was happy being machine when round the bend beside a stream was birdsong happening in the trees. Ruth McIlroy is a poet of the tilting world. Her lyrics are charged with immediacy and proceed off kilter in the revelation of familiar experience as unfamiliar and normality as something quite other. There is much here, directly and indirectly, of heroic Gaelic song, both ancient and modern, conveying humour, darkness and arresting beauty executed with