Journey

<p>Sue Lewis''s <i>Journey</i> has the ability to combine a conversational tone with exquisite phrases and images that surprise without any need for showiness. The quiet elegance of the poems, the sound patterns and pressure on language combine with a sensibility of the fragility of life that nonetheless refuses to be crushed. There''s a yearning ache in these pieces that remains unsentimental and leaves space for what isn''t or can''t be said; an intelligence that pays attention to the deepest connections and celebrates ''the everyday enchantment''. <br><br>from ''Transmuted''<br>You are my consolation, <br>turning up the way you have, <br>riddling out this burnt and blackened year <br>and I can''t ask for more. <br><br>Spring will come, I know that now.<br>The white magnolias.</p>