Lunch on a Green Ledge Davis Stella
Lunch on a Green Ledge Davis Stella "The tug of history steers these poems into view. Knowing, lyrical, meticulous, delightful: these are poems to savour and admire, to come back to and read…
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Lunch on a Green Ledge Davis Stella
"The tug of history steers these poems into view. Knowing, lyrical, meticulous, delightful: these are poems to savour and admire, to come back to and read again."Julian Stannard, Winchester UniversityGlyn Purslove in Acumen writing about Last Boat to Avalon states: "Stella Davis writes with an inviting directness (though without undue simplification); this is a poetry which engages with personal memories of the everyday and does so with both humour and an awareness of the "Eden-shining moment."Wendy Cope in MsLexia writing about Last Boat to Avalon writes: "...a very good and very readable poet. Poems of this order not only provide an aesthetic pleasure - Stella Davis is rigorous, a precisionist - these personal histories become part of a wider history.
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