Poems that express vulnerability, an uncertainty leading to things lost (or gained): tragedy, grief, dying or the likelihood of dying, evolve throughout, linking into stories of childhood, growing up, travelling, and family.Janet Fisher writes aboutMorePoems that express vulnerability, an uncertainty leading to things lost (or gained): tragedy, grief, dying or the likelihood of dying, evolve throughout, linking into stories of childhood, growing up, travelling, and family.Janet Fisher writes about people as if she had known them all her life.
And yet, in a book so warmly peopled, she writes from that lonely spot within a crowd, that spot we all inhabit. Resolutely honest, trusting the plain truth to speak, Brittle Bones is a wonderfully buoyant collection which honours both the rich and drab texture of our lives, without value judgements but with a fierce sense of our commonality.
I found such pleasure in Fishers latest book -- a new kind of sadness, thoughtfulness (unworldliness almost), which makes the work all the richer. -- Mimi Khalvati