Pike in a Carp Pond by Pnina Shinebourne Iliad Kathleen Raine

Kathleen Raine

Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman and Immigrant Blues

' he writes in 'On the ground'

The poet's ear for music combine with his visual acuity to make this an accomplished debut collection

Niall Campbell

Pike in a Carp Pond by Pnina Shinebourne Iliad Kathleen RainePike in a Carp Pond is a book about vision and resilience, imagination and the making of meaning. In her first full length collection, Pnina Shinebourne re imagines the lives of two major twentieth century figures the English painter Stanley Spencer, and the German Communist leader Rosa Luxemburg. While Spencer (1891 1959) found glimpses of heaven in the lives of Cookham villagers, soldiers in the trenches and shipyard workers on the Clyde, Rosa