Small Scale Observations by James Sutherland-Smith Rachel Long madness and the family in

madness and the family in a time before the digital became part of the story

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Caroline Bird

Scottish and Singaporean

Starting with Looking through Letterboxes in 2002 when she was fifteen years old

Small Scale Observations by James Sutherland-Smith Rachel Long madness and the family inThe poems in James Sutherland Smiths eighth collection move from the garden into the neighbourhood of a down at heel Hapsburg town and then range into the nearby forest, the personal and the past. Borders are crossed and seemingly insignificant creatures suddenly gain visionary dimensions. The title poem recalls a poet whose attention to the small scale made his work seem minor, yet as Hardy wrote he noticed such things, a heedfulness absent in a