Dorothy by Neil Rathmell #Lovepoetry Inspector Inspector struggles with the

Inspector Inspector struggles with the legacies of fathers

showcasing the breadth of contemporary formal poetry: constrained poetry

yet they’re suffused with the hard-won wisdom that the communities we build can be as meaningful as the families we’re born into

slender and pale/for moments

and of the land where she was born

Dorothy by Neil Rathmell #Lovepoetry Inspector Inspector struggles with theOne evening when they are sitting quietly together she breaks the silence and starts to talk Dorothy tells the complete story of a Yorkshire woman, in verse, from her birth early in the last century to her death in the first years of this. Like so many of her generation, she lived a life both ordinary and extraordinary; shaded by grief, troubled by family dynamics, and restricted by the realities of class, location and gender. Hers was a life where