Reward for Winter Rebecca Tamás

Reward for Winter Rebecca Tamás"Those who admire Di Slaneys sophisticated and dextrous poems will be deeply grateful for this first full collection. Swinging to the rhythms of farm life, the book takes in a wide range of tones, from the humour of How to knit a sheep to the transcendent lyricism of the collections title poem [it also] includes a highly original sequence about chickens and egg laying. Beautifully crafted and very moving." Jonathan Edwards, poet In 2005, Di Slaney

they conjure relationships and exchanges

I was secretly chuffed

It is also a book about the midnight world of insomniacs

The situations are typically Bulgarian

"A superlative plot-master

his ability to hold on to his sanity disintegrates

these poems are forays of discovery and resistance

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From Pewter's desk and his marking

Whether humanity will ever make much actual progress between transgressing and regressing in such matters remains to be seen

and brass bands) and the political (the Miners’ Strike

family and a crumbling society that sees Luke Wright at the peak of his powers