When God Has Been Called Away to Greater Things

Grace Wells' When God Has Been Called Away to Greater Things is that rare thing, a debut collection of poems that is at once firmly earthed in the real yet intimately connected to the mythic. In poems of lyrical beauty and imaginative reach, Wells explores the complex world of familial relationships, from childhood exploits in the company of an older sister ("I leant upon the wisdom of her age"), through the difficulties and self-doubt of failed relationships ("What's left, when the father ...