Lunch on a Green Ledge

"The tug of history steers these poems into view. Poems of this order not only provide an aesthetic pleasure - Stella Davis is rigorous, a precisionist - these personal histories become part of a wider history. Knowing, lyrical, meticulous, delightful: these are poems to savour and admire, to come back to and read again."

Julian Stannard, Winchester University

Glyn Purslove in Acumen writing about Last Boat to Avalon states:

"Stella Davis writes with an inviting directness (though without und...