No Guiding Star by John Mills Ben Ray these poems tend to travel

these poems tend to travel in distinct streams: some reference and re-make narratives from classical Greek myth

Aoife Lyall’s debut collection Mother

on Góngora and on the Valencian metaphysical poet Ausiàs March

The voice is often clean and unfussy

No Guiding Star by John Mills Ben Ray these poems tend to travel"When I read this collection, it wouldnt let me go. These are poems of agony, joy and grief, bringing us the mundane, magical business of everyday life in surreal technicolour. Tender moments are observed with Johns characteristic wit. This is a collection which explores chronic illness in an unflinching way, but pain is not its defining subject. Inside these pages youll find a world of brief encounters, cigarette coloured cardigans, unsent letters,