Lode by Gillian Allnutt Erin Bolens Darling’s voice reaches beyond poetry’s

Darling’s voice reaches beyond poetry’s mannerisms and ideals

and his own future

These are poems that invite the reader into the spaces between them

rage as an act of prayer

Australia and the melting polar caps

Lode by Gillian Allnutt Erin Bolens Darling’s voice reaches beyond poetry’sThe lode in Gillian Allnutts title picks up on two of the many meanings of the word. A lode can be a course, a way, a journey; also a road, a lane. Her collection traces a journey through time, the time of her own life and of our lives, since the Second World War. Lode also means guidance, here the guidance afforded by the continuity and relative stability economic, cultural, spiritual of Britains postwar years, the setting of the first part of the