Slant Light A Herring Famine estrangement and edgy humour for

estrangement and edgy humour for which she has become known

with several of the poems spaced to look like mirror images of each other

Michael Hartnett

With this knowledge of grief

Paula Meehan’s extraordinary new collection is both a controlled experiment with the challenge of form and

Slant Light A Herring Famine estrangement and edgy humour forIn her first full length collection, Sarah Westcott immerses the human self in the natural world, giving voice to a remarkable range of flora and fauna so often silenced or unheard. Here, the voiceless speaks, laments and sings from the fresh voice of a spring wood to a colony of bats or a grove of ancient sequioa trees. Unafraid of using scientific language and teamed with a clear eye, Westcotts poems are drawn directly from the natural world,