Black Bullets in the Sweet Jar Margaret Speak

Black Bullets in the Sweet Jar Margaret SpeakDurham writer Alison Carr looks back to the childhood she lost when she was knocked down by a hit and run driver when she was eight years old. Written with a beautiful melancholy, the poems are constructed around iterative images of lost childhood pleasures, of falling apples and seasonal change, connecting personal feelings of loss with larger narratives of the Fall mythical, anthropological and economic.

the consequences of those adventures

Astonishingly

] There is a great deal of vitality and versatility among the younger generation of emerging poets in the country’s capital

when all is in suspense

He is married with two daughters

learning both kind and terrible truths which it takes healthy adults a lifetime to amass

It’s a book about art and love

they defend the honour of Walthamstow

ecological and cultural fable as a young girl and her father on a small island are confronted by the reality and cruelty of global market forces with the privatisation of their traditional water supply

County Kildare and comes from a family in which poetry has long been appreciated: his father composed verses in his head while he worked in the fields and his grandfather's poems are still read at family occasions

‘Someone has written that all art aspires to the condition of music

seasonal change and awkwardness