Lessons in KindnessLessons in Kindness is a collection exploring identity, sexuality, strength and vulnerability. Through a series of losses and epiphanies, a young woman attempts to make sense of the lessons taught and learned. From the recent referenda in Ireland, to a landscape of women ghosts, Lessons in Kindness is a search for meaning and love, set against the backdrop of the wild Atlantic coast.

Nature always at hand as guide

From plunging cat burglars

She uses the natural world

Lillie Postlewhite

It’s a frank

In a small corner of one of its many cities

under the furrows

yet revealing the secrets of a marriage of many decades

The Retrieved Attachments in Peter Robinson’s new collection are to people and places

Warwickshire

often pinpointing a way of life quite different to that lived on the mainland

its three poem-sequences strip away further layers of illusion until a glimmer of meaning starts to appear in the ‘winter light’ of the landscape of the Drôme area of northern Provence