Flint and Needle

. . . Quiet Colloquial Often Witty Without Sacrificing Depth And Breadth Of Emotion-And They Range From The Elegiac To The Surreal The Narrative To The Lyrical. She Is In Other Words A Poet Of Enormous Talent In The Mode Of William Meredith And Michael Collier. Rick Jackson Her Strengths Are A Thoroughness And Appropriateness Of Her Images And The Fullness And Texturing Of Her Sentences . . . An Effective Exploration Of How Image Can Build A Bridge Between The Personal And The Universal. Leslie Ullman . . . Has A Gift For Juxtaposing Images Of Quotidian Routine And Fantastic Menace In Scenes Which Evoke Strange Psychological States. Other Poems Offer Compassionate Portraits Of Women In Conflict. She Also Has A Keen Sense Of The Unexpected Detail Quirky Diction The Striking Power Of Images And How Statements Can Be Applied Within Them. Belle Waring