Dorothy by Neil Rathmell poets slyly humorous

slyly humorous

shadows are real

and this sequence takes its departure from the island of Amorgos

James reminds us that he is not only a poet of effortless wit and lyric accomplishment: he is also an immensely wise one

in all their strength and vulnerability

Dorothy by Neil Rathmell poets slyly humorousOne evening when they are sitting quietly together she breaks the silence and starts to talk Dorothy tells the complete story of a Yorkshire woman, in verse, from her birth early in the last century to her death in the first years of this. Like so many of her generation, she lived a life both ordinary and extraordinary; shaded by grief, troubled by family dynamics, and restricted by the realities of class, location and gender. Hers was a life where