Latch by Rebecca Goss Marvin Thompson and recognising one’s voice and

and recognising one’s voice and one’s loves amid the clamour

plus poetry inspired by a trip to Japan

the Lancaster Literature Festival Competition

is many-toned: he is a comic writer

But they are more than that

Latch by Rebecca Goss Marvin Thompson and recognising one’s voice andLatch is a study in the act of returning. It is about reconnecting to a place, Suffolk, and understanding what it once held, and what it now holds for a woman and her family. These poems unearth the deep, lasting attachments people have with the East Anglian countryside, gathering voices of labour, love and loss proving a landscape can both harm and heal us. In this landscape, and in her fourth full length collection, Rebecca Goss again draws on her