The Pot of Earth and the Iron Pot by Ruth McIlroy Angela Readman growing old

growing old

The result is a series of poems that feel urgent and true

Letters So That Happiness (Cartas para qe la alegría)

alongside thrilling new voices including Chen Chen

I read him as I might check the sky for stars

The Pot of Earth and the Iron Pot by Ruth McIlroy Angela Readman growing oldI was happy being machine when round the bend beside a stream was birdsong happening in the trees. Ruth McIlroy is a poet of the tilting world. Her lyrics are charged with immediacy and proceed off kilter in the revelation of familiar experience as unfamiliar and normality as something quite other. There is much here, directly and indirectly, of heroic Gaelic song, both ancient and modern, conveying humour, darkness and arresting beauty executed with