Double Negative by Vona Groake Jean Sprackland Peaches Goes It Alone adds

Peaches Goes It Alone adds new music and menace to Seidel's masterful body of work

The Sound We Make Ourselves: Poems 1971-2016 was published by Eyewear in 2016

Winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

 The pivotal work marking this shift was his long poem Fox Running (1980)

the 2016 edition contains a revised introduction and updated author biographies

Double Negative by Vona Groake Jean Sprackland Peaches Goes It Alone addsIn this, her seventh collection, Vona Groarke considers the subject of ageing, fearlessly exploring its culverts and cul de sacs while also checking this earnestness with sharp wit and trademark style. Here candour is mediated by humour. These are sensual and sensitive poems, written in language asked to be beautiful, wry and true about topics usually either ignored or obscured with greyness and clich. Hailed by The Irish Times as a poet of great self