Slant Light George Szirtes and in this book poetry

and in this book poetry is still a place where words and names

She has a sinewy

Animals gaze at their human companions who gaze back

His first novel

The neglect has been entirely mine

Slant Light George Szirtes and in this book poetryIn her first full length collection, Sarah Westcott immerses the human self in the natural world, giving voice to a remarkable range of flora and fauna so often silenced or unheard. Here, the voiceless speaks, laments and sings from the fresh voice of a spring wood to a colony of bats or a grove of ancient sequioa trees. Unafraid of using scientific language and teamed with a clear eye, Westcotts poems are drawn directly from the natural world,