Even So This Song

<p>Lisa Dart's courageous and beautifully intense lyric collection gives us a candid and unflinching chronicle of her profound grief following the death of her life partner the poet Peter Abbs; from the domestic minutiae that create the loved texture of a shared life to the limits of what the psyche can endure. This is a grief that is evoked by everything around her-a pair of shoes a dropped daffodil bulb a headboard falling snow. These are poems that howl that long for rescue and the turning back of time. Yet in the end that all-pervasive mourning becomes the sign and the music of life continuing.</p>