Light Beneath the Lids

<p class=ql-align-center><strong style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>'A deeply affecting exquisitely crafted work.' </em>The International Review of Books</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Following the successful publication of </span><em style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Bright Dust </em><span style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>author Jane Lightbourne's second poetry collection </span><em style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Light Beneath The Lids</em><span style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is now published by award-winning Nevada Street Press. Some poems in this new collection celebrate love in its varied forms exploring the joy and darkness that romantic love brings while others are inspired by the force and beauty of the natural world. The frailty of the human condition is always at the forefront of the poet's consciousness but with a focus always on light and hope amid the darkness.</span></p><p></p><p><u style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Praise for </u><em style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><u>Light Beneath the Lids: </u></em></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A luminous collection that pulses with emotional intensity and lyrical grace. Jane Lightbourne distils longing love loss and hope into crystalline verse. Her images linger each poem a meditation on the ache of memory and the persistence of beauty.' </em><span style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> The International Review of Books</span></p><p></p><p><u style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Praise for </u><em style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><u>Bright Dust</u></em></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>'Exhilarating' </em><span style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Goodreads reviewer Educator</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>'Wonderful ...Truly beautiful and moving.' </em><span style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Goodreads reviewer Librarian</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>'Beautiful and haunting' </em><span style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>NetGalley reviewer Educator </span></p>