Lightship

<p>Twenty years ago, Bruce Ackerley won Cinnamon Press’s inaugural poetry collection prize with his debut, <em>Sound of Mountain</em>, of which RV Bailey wrote: ‘finely crafted, lyrical and spare… with a musical ear for landscape and relationships. An interesting, individual voice, he writes with power and sensitivity.’</p><p>In <em>Lightship</em>, Ackerley now brings together his finest writing from two decades, the voice confident and supple with a deepened lyricism and an acute sense of what to say, and what not to say, each poem is a honed gem—poised and resonant. Ranging across the natural and supernatural, the solace and joys of art, film and music, love, grief and sexuality, and the vicissitudes of mental health, <em>Lightship</em> is both an internal record and a reaching out. A moving, distinctive <em>pièce de résistance</em>.</p>