Lunch on a Green Ledge

<p>The tug of history steers these poems into view. Poems of this order not only provide an aesthetic pleasure - Stella Davis is rigorous a precisionist - these personal histories become part of a wider history. Knowing lyrical meticulous delightful: these are poems to savour and admire to come back to and read again.</p><p>Julian Stannard Winchester University</p><p><br></p><p>Glyn Purslove in Acumen writing about Last Boat to Avalon states: </p><p>Stella Davis writes with an inviting directness (though without undue simplification); this is a poetry which engages with personal memories of the everyday and does so with both humour and an awareness of the Eden-shining moment.</p><p><br></p><p>Wendy Cope in MsLexia writing about Last Boat to Avalon writes:</p><p>...a very good and very readable poet. I don't often come across a collection that includes so many poems that make me exclaim Yes!</p><p><br></p>