The Colour of Rain by Susan Utting fertility from poetic neglect

from poetic neglect

These remarkable poems are despatches from the edges of experience: from the remote coast of northern Iceland where tree-trunks and dead whales lie beached

innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author

Victoria Kennefick

lyrics and elegies

The Colour of Rain by Susan Utting fertility from poetic neglectThe Colour of Rain is Susan Utting's fifth full collection, following her New and Selected, Half the Human Race. Here she demonstrates a new found intimacy with the natural world, a closeness that leads her to become part of it. She 'becomes' a Willow Sister, joins an avenue of poplars, has conversations with bees. And while nature is joyfully celebrated, poems also lament its losses: felled trees. disappearing species, Rachel Carson's all too present