Land Music by Ruth Bidgood shearsman books The sun is an ambivalent

The sun is an ambivalent force in these poetic narratives

' – Rose Solari

'Small Hands'

firmly in the North amongst ‘My People’: “who swear without knowing they are swearing… scaffolders and plasterers and shoemakers and carers…”

Romer’s New & Selected articulates the constant oscillation between love

Land Music by Ruth Bidgood shearsman books The sun is an ambivalentLand Music sees Ruth Bidgood writing at the top of her powers. Fluent, yet unerringly exact, always searching for new perspectives, we move with the poet from landscape to memories, each evoked with such precision that we enter them fully. This is a world in which nothing is insignificant, from the tiles of pre Raphaelite girls by the fireside which spell 'the unpredictability of beauty's manifestations' to the visual trick of leaves in the wind that