between white

These 20 or so poems encompass huge emotional territory, as well as geographical space, and always with a nod to the net of time in which we are enwrapped. Language is pared back, exquisitely chiselled, to release essences, the hidden beauties and sadnesses and joys that are there in all our lives if only we could apprehend them. Josephine Clarke helps us to do exactly that: to see and feel that the world, for all its sorrows, can still spark in us joy, even a sense of transcendence. Shane McCauley, 2016.