Frayed Linens

From a mother’s sorcery, to a satirical abduction, to a Celtic saint’s interventions, and the stone hands of a gargoyle, the range and energy of this new collection cannot conceal the tenderness that propels it.
Marilyn Bowering casts the poet as a traveller, and Frayed Linens is a poet’s exorcism of the nightmares that haunt today’s world. She writes of beauty and resilience within darkness, from the ruins of ancient Greece to the horrors of Mariupol, showing how History echoes itself at ev...