Where Shadow Falls Pippa Woodhead

Where Shadow Falls Pippa WoodheadThe language and structure of the poems allows readers to create their own interpretations of events and relationships. Never didactic and often leavened with wit, the poems occupy the liminal space between whats present and what lies beyond. Nevertheless, they are attentive in their range to such present day realities as prostitution, prison and political deception. Forgiveness, they discover, may be found in time or place but we can only be certain

but of its presence"

all this will be okay”

Comrade Hou Liangping

to noon when the poetic Miss Jagabir is the last to leave for lunch

in which anxieties and griefs flit and hover

the Ninth House is the area primarily concerned with systematic understanding and the laws that govern it

delirious comic fantasia about the joys and terrors of a life devoted to resisting the degradations of conformism

a UK riven by the Brexit debate

even a carpark

was a popular writer of stories and poetry for children

His translator is the award-winning David Colmer

Red-handed