Journey

<p>Sue Lewis's <i>Journey</i> has the ability to combine a conversational tone with exquisite phrases and images that surprise without any need for showiness. The quiet elegance of the poems the sound patterns and pressure on language combine with a sensibility of the fragility of life that nonetheless refuses to be crushed. There's a yearning ache in these pieces that remains unsentimental and leaves space for what isn't or can't be said; an intelligence that pays attention to the deepest connections and celebrates 'the everyday enchantment'. <br><br>from 'Transmuted'<br>You are my consolation <br>turning up the way you have <br>riddling out this burnt and blackened year <br>and I can't ask for more. <br><br>Spring will come I know that now.<br>The white magnolias.</p>