Life's Stink & Honey Valentine Lynn
Life's Stink & Honey Valentine Lynn Lynn Valentine is a distinctive new voice in Scottish poetry. This collection is alive with horses, crows, deer, and as the title suggests, bees; all points north.…
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Life's Stink & Honey Valentine Lynn
Lynn Valentine is a distinctive new voice in Scottish poetry. This collection is alive with horses, crows, deer, and as the title suggests, bees; all points north. With hints of fairytale and gothic, she writes precise and poignant poems embracing what is often overlooked or peripheral - a father who drives the snowplough, a childless woman seeking consolation from a Sheela-na-gig.
From council workers to prophetic aunts, Mills and Boon to the winter solstice, the poems here are full of making do and doing without, of childhood and childlessness, of the grief of loss and the grief of absence. -- Jay WhittakerEnhanced by her apt and confident use of Scots, which glimmers like gold leaf throughout, Lynn Valentine's poems weave the ethereal with the everyday, and reveal to us a glimpse of the natural and unnatural world we stride and stumble through. This is a special