Devil's Piece by Lynn Valentine Judith Willson Weaving through encounters with urban

Weaving through encounters with urban and natural environments

In her second collection Kate Ashton examines woman’s estate from the warring perspectives of creativity and procreativity

to leaving one’s mark and understanding one’s place in the passage of time

An impressive

Places without words become focal points: the poems seek articulation in life before birth and after death

Devil's Piece by Lynn Valentine Judith Willson Weaving through encounters with urbanIn Devils Piece loss, absence, mental illness and pain are examined with a lens so clear and lucid, the heart aches. Yet in that clarity, there is a savouring of the smallest things and a permeability to love and life that creates songs of what might have been dirges. There is no dressing up of reality, no pretence that everything is well, but in these fearless, precise poems there is transformation. An exquisite collection.