How the Bicycle Shone Paula Meehan Andy Kershaw

Andy Kershaw

like a painting"

which made her the first poet to record at Abbey Road Studios

including a 10th-century physicist from Basra

Metaphysical and lyrical

How the Bicycle Shone Paula Meehan Andy KershawDenise Levertov described Allnutt's poems as 'at once hard and delicate, like wrought iron'. They are both serious and light in touch, deeply humane and spiritually profound, showing the spirit surviving amongst the tatters of Christianity in a modern wilderness. "How the Bicycle Shone" includes selections from her books "Spitting the Pips Out" (1981), "Beginning the Avocado" (1987), "Blackthorn" (1994) and "Nantucket and the Angel" (1997), as well as