offering portents of many rewarding instalments to come
this anthology illuminates over a thousand years of Japanese travel writing
politically adept and in control
a paean “to our white husbands”
Their delicate reconstruction in the final part of book three becomes a moving
The Fourth Sister by Laura Scott Sarah Corbett offering portents of many rewardingLaura Scott's second collection, The Fourth Sister, is a book of unusual love poems. It features an assorted cast: lovers and sisters, but also parents and children, the living and the dead, birds and trees, painters, playwrights and their characters, a godfather who married the wrong man and a godmother who was surely a spy. The book's energy flows out into other lives, discovering vital connections and the gaps between them. Scott writes as a poet