The Book of Tides by Angela Readman Bloodaxe 📚SUMMER CHOICE: Padraig Regan

📚SUMMER CHOICE: Padraig Regan

who knew and loved the man and poet

Tess Gallagher

a Tattooist’s daughter

Mr Gallas – our millennial Dante – is taken under the wing by his Horatian guide

The Book of Tides by Angela Readman Bloodaxe 📚SUMMER CHOICE: Padraig ReganAngela Readmans The Book of Tides is treasure trove of luscious, visceral poems that are delightfully risky, utterly thrilling and always close to the bone. Readmans poetry teems with the rare and beautiful, the dark seaweed sparkle of a particular strand of skewed folklore; here we encounter fishermen and mermaids, a man with a beard of bees, a Tattooists daughter, Joan of Arc, and Beatrix Potters bed a rich swell of voices with an irresistible and