Full Stops in Winter Branches by Char March James Womack with its emphasis on tribe

with its emphasis on tribe

often in other people’s poems

even in a short space

The virtuous Gawain accepts

Anne Sexton and lost friends

Full Stops in Winter Branches by Char March James Womack with its emphasis on tribeIn this, her fifth collection, Char March is searching for hidden nests of humanity within the cold, bare branches of politics, and giving a voice to the voiceless (both human and otherwise). She expertly immerses us in the landscapes and soundscapes of her twin homes of Scotland and Yorkshire and, whether visiting the depths of Leeds sewers or tasting the Hebrides sea, never strays far from the sharp humour and eye for detail that her readers have