Shake the Kaleidoscope by G W Colkitto Victoria Kennefick The poems grapple with reconciling

The poems grapple with reconciling the toxicity of the titular Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn and the east river in ‘Manahatta’ with the poet’s search for the pastoral in New York City

I walked on into the forest is her twelfth book of poetry

comprising two sections: her Life and her Papers

vulnerability and disconnection

His protagonists stumble half-awake through a dying epoch

Shake the Kaleidoscope by G W Colkitto Victoria Kennefick The poems grapple with reconcilingMemory, time, love and loss weave through all of G W Colkitto's poems with a resonance that moves us fluidly from yearning to insight. The master of seeing connections, Shake the Kaleidoscope finds Colkitto taking a view across the whole of life: non linear, sometimes fragmentary, imbued with whimsy and humour, but above all permeable to the scars and triumphs of loss and love. As the poems range back and forth across the years, one memory provoking