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Choose a honeyed place to make a harbour...
In her second poetry collection, Jeni Williams searches for sweetness in bitter times. In an uncertain and fractured world, cities shudder to smoking ruin; the lost and confused call out across hospital corridors; and too-small shoes come apart in the rain. But, through the cracks, there are glimpses of flowers and small joys – bluebells and celandines, jasmine and honeysuckle, pomegranate syrup and cinnamon cake – a huge expanse of sky. As light emerges from darkness the characters of these poems sing out, readying themselves to begin again. Still here, and very much alive.
Praise for On Being the Famous Ones (Parthian, 2009):
‘colourful, quirky, intensely imagined but above all deeply compassionate...’ – Alice Entwistle
‘There is much to enjoy and return to here, much to contemplate and reflect on, much that haunts and lingers’ – Suzy Ceulan Hughes, gwales.com
