Blossomise by Simon Armitage Keston Sutherland Collins’s poems also weave a

Collins’s poems also weave a narrative about the different kinds of love that shaped her story: love that is lost

— Mendez

in space and time

a gathering of portraits of promised lands and those who go in search of them: travellers

Through a series of raw and evocative poems

Blossomise by Simon Armitage Keston Sutherland Collins’s poems also weave aSimon Armitage, Poet Laureate, brings new perspectives and energy to a timeless poetic subject. Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its melancholy disappearance. Full of spirited leaps of imagination and language, the twenty one poems hopscotch between intense momentary haikus that honour the Japanese traditions of the blossom festival and stand alone lyrical pieces that take in the stylistic