Safe Ground

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Safe Ground</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>traces Rosie Johnston's search for safety from a tricky upbringing in Troubles Belfast to peace and a sense of home near Margate where TS Eliot wrote part of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>The Waste Land</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>. </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Safe Ground</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Rosie expands into longer forms of poetry to explore her parents' choppy marriage her own capacity for stability and whether she can bring her children up to live even-keel lives in high winds. </span></p><p></p>