The Sea Chest

<p><em>The Sea Chest</em> is a visceral moving and emotionally layered account of life in the aftermath of loss. In 2017 Kerry Greer's husband Gabriel ended his life with horrific violence dying on the kitchen floor of his parents' home.</p><p>Haunting in its honesty and underpinned by a connection to the spirituality of the natural world <em>The Sea Chest</em> traces the impact of Gabriel's death over years and continents. The collection provides a counter-narrative to ideas of grief portrayed in sympathy cards or Hollywood movies. There is no redemptive narrative arc no going back to normal. But there is the old love-the indissoluble thread that is now called grief.</p><p>Imagistic and probing<em> The Sea Chest</em> speaks directly into the void. In the stillness in the grey: a ripple an answer from the ether asking the reader to listen to not turn away. <em>The Sea Chest</em> becomes a holding space for grief-for the things which cannot be said out loud but which need to be voiced. This is poetry as invocation poetry as love enacted poetry as gateway to the liminal and the sacred.</p>