M Pages
M Pages The 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…
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M Pages
The 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 writer's "morning pages"--until they reach the book's arresting central sequence. It does so unflinchingly, gracefully, and honestly, as Bryce harnesses her characteristic insight, forensic eye, and deeply-woven music to deeply moving ends. 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.
This is a important book about what--for reasons of propriety, self-censorship, fear, and the limits of our As the book unfolds, it becomes clear that her other subjects (of family, travel, history and ageing) all orbit the gravitational center of The M Pages.