Review:
100 Poems to Save the Earth
Edited by Zoë Brigley and Kristian Evans
and
Gorwelion / Shared Horizons
Edited by Robert Minhinnick
and
This is How the Change Begins
by Nicola Davies From Planet 246
Angela Graham
reviews
100 Poems to Save the Earth
Edited by Zoë Brigley and Kristian Evans
and
Gorwelion / Shared Horizons
Edited by Robert Minhinnick
and
This is How the Change Begins
by Nicola Davies
Seren, £9.99
Why do we buy a book of poetry? Because we expect to find in its pages, through a happy conjunction of sentiment, insight and wordcraft, nothing less than truth and beauty. From writing that addresses catastrophe we seek a particularly high degree of honesty and clear-sightedness. The stakes are too high for anything less.
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Angela Graham is a writer and poet from Belfast who has had a long career as a film maker in Wales. Her collection of short stories A City Burning (Seren, 2020) was longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She won First Prize for Poetry at the Linen Hall Library Ulster-Scots Writing Competition in November 2021.
