Five Fundamental Forces

<p>The fundamental forces in our lives might include parents siblings husbands and wives lovers the rain and the sun. As Guns & Roses once sang every rose has its thorn. In this stunning new book Pattie Palmer-Baker delves deep into these forces with a narrative and lyric force of her own. The poems here are generous vulnerable grown-up and a joy to read. Palmer-Baker is a poet of witness and this book is a balm for any prick of a thorn you may have suffered in your life.</p><p>-Matthew Dickman author of <em>Husbandry</em></p><p><br></p><p>There's something elemental about this collection and its concerns woven through with the colors of mountains and motels. Here's a reckoning with the past told in sparkling imagery always heartfelt yet never sentimental 'My husband writes me love notes/on the shells of hardboiled eggs.' Pattie Palmer-Baker plays with space reflecting the ways in which memory can be fractured and re-made on the page so as to create an alchemy which makes this collection one that remains in the mind long after the first reading.</p><p>-Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch author of <em>Banjo</em></p>