Shag

These are poems with strong straight-talking narratives punctuated by keenly observed birds amidst the bleak land and seascapes of northern Britain. This early collection of poems by Arts Council (UK) award-winning writer Sue Vickerman is about relationships that are illustrated if not shaped and directed by that sometimes harsh world that is nature. Her poems have been described as windows onto worlds where various degrees of unsatisfactoriness are revealed... The essential mode is watching and Sue Vickermans gaze is uncompromising direct and wide-ranging; her language dense and gritty at home on the edge of things - Linda France (editor Sixty Women Poets Bloodaxe Books).Salty stony fierce loving and sometimes sharp... Poems that will ruffle your feathers full of acute glimpses of the underneath of things - Julia Darling.Edgy elemental tender they help me to understand more about what it is Im doing being human - Subhadassi.