The M Pages by Colette Bryce Stack Lilac and Flag and G

Lilac and Flag and G

Published by Random House on 05

mindful and life-affirming book

which extend her body of work about the changing position of women since the eighteenth century

It is full of iron-hard rocks and ice

The M Pages by Colette Bryce Stack Lilac and Flag and GThe reader might be justified in thinking that the M in the title of Colette Bryce's new poetry collection could stand for Mortality, Mother, Mourning, or the spontaneous and cathartic practice of the writers morning pages until they reach the books arresting central sequence. Addressed to M, a sibling who has suddenly died, this three part poem depicts the experience of unexpected bereavement, and the altering effect such events have on the living.