How to Carry Fire by Christina Thatcher John Kelly while ‘Wires’ takes telegraph wires

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How to Carry Fire by Christina Thatcher John Kelly while ‘Wires’ takes telegraph wires'Christina Thatcher writes with the lucent purity of someone who has been cracked open by loss, from the child whose job was house canary, ever primed and ready for the ransacking, to the adult survivor who loves like the horse chestnut loves carbon. By turns visceral and soaringly beautiful, these poems of brokenness, hope and fierce tenderness will find their way under your skin and lodge themselves inside your heart.' Janet Lees 'In her collection