Landscape and nature take centre stage in this practised collection. Here we have a bird’s – or perhaps moth’s – eye view of the natural world and the ways in which we interact (and often fail to interact) with it.
The Moth Box also interrogates our various environments: ecological, linguistic, national – even astrological and philosophical. Camouflage, too, plays a role; certainly with creatures such as the eponymous moth, but also the disguises in which we cloak ourselves.
This is a collection teeming with life, but for all the cats, moths, birds, trees, The Moth Box never forgets what it is to be human.
Author Bio:
Sue Moules graduated from Lampeter in 1979 with a degree in English. As a student she was a member of the New Rhymers group, published poems in the literary magazine Plethora, worked on the college newspaper, 1822, and co- founded the literary magazine Spectrum. She is a founder member of Lampeter Writers’ Workshop (1984) and is part of its Red Heron performance group. She is also chair of Teifi Writers, and a member of Cwrtnewydd Scribblers.