Guises by Lawrence Sail carcanet these resolute poems celebrate outspoken

these resolute poems celebrate outspoken women

reading a sinuous

spiritually - the familiar becomes strange: seen for the first time

and in doing so celebrate all those who have a space in his poems and all those who are able to tune into his remarkable music

It thinks into every connective

Guises by Lawrence Sail carcanet these resolute poems celebrate outspokenPublished 27th February 2020 Lawrence Sail's poetry is noted for its scrupulous combination of close observation and broader reflections. In Guises he builds on the strengths of twelve previous collections, writing 'in praise of perception', which brings its own challenges and delights, embodied in the shifts and layers of language. A sense of the precious and the precarious informs poems with widely differing subjects and settings. There is, too, a