The River and the Black Cat by James Sutherland-Smith Marianne Burton never mind the lavender-scented pillow

never mind the lavender-scented pillow

“Watching the new surge of Deaf poets take on the world of BSL

It’s a real treat discovering long lost Neruda poems that do not disappoint

the biodiversity of which is equal to that of the whole of England

Growing up with undiagnosed Asperger’s

The River and the Black Cat by James Sutherland-Smith Marianne Burton never mind the lavender-scented pillowSixty four improvisations, whose principle motifs are a stretch of a small river in Central Europe and a once feral black cat, navigate the language that we inhabit and that inhabits us. Three philosophers or the three musketeers, Boris Karloff, Li Bai and an Indian companion, among others, ghost in and out of poems ordered according to the progress of the seasons. Their moods and perspectives range from the inconsequential and paradoxical to the