Snaring Heaven

Christopher Meredith

The most significant writer among these prizewinners … I take to be Christopher Meredith. He writes with freedom and perhaps unfashionable eloquence about alienation and doubt. So wrote Michael Hofman in the T.L.S. of the...

Stonelight

Sheenagh Pugh

Sheenagh Pugh’s poems continue to entertain and delight her many admirers. In Stonelight, her ninth collection, the keynote is celebration. The opening section includes a moving series called ’Arctic Chart’ which commemorates the various people...

The Sun in the West

Jean Earle

Incidents from childhood, history, family life, the television news - these are the varied sources of inspiration in this new collection by Jean Earle. The poems are profound without being obscure; easy to read, yet...