I Sing to the Greenhearts by Maggie Harris Jorie Graham This outstanding book confirms Michael

This outstanding book confirms Michael McCarthy as an insightful storyteller: wise and grounded in the everyday the poems nevertheless celebrate the numinous moments in all our lives

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Tablets: Secrets of the Clay transforms the world’s first letter symbols

Carolyn Jess-Cooke’s new poetry collection is both keenly political and deeply personal

and editor Karen McCarthy Woolf

I Sing to the Greenhearts by Maggie Harris Jorie Graham This outstanding book confirms MichaelA collection haunted by ghosts of colonial history, Maggie Harriss I Sing to the Greenhearts challenges the dullness of pastoral with unbridled nature. Guyanas Greenheart tree appears in this collection as one of many plants with attitude, plants that know their history, plants bringing the wild in from the edges. In poems set in a thriving Welsh garden, such as My Banana thinks on Louise Bennetts Colonisation in Reverse, we find a world in which both