The eleven-year-old who wanted to become a poet becomes the woman 'buried under ice with words burning inside', who becomes the old woman still 'searching for words' - fearful now of memory loss and a failing body.I Want!
The poems in this extraordinary book deal in familiar emotions - love, grief, rage, loneliness - but do so with such a fresh and fierce eye, such lived intensity, that the familiar is given again the force to touch our nerves, to seem raw and new.
Split between dark and light, this book records the dichotomy of human experience with unflinching force and clarity. poems which enter the lives of real and imaginary characters, Keats and Medea and Blodeuwedd, for example;