How We Dream of the Dead Vuyelwa Carlin Author

The poems in Carlin's new collection show the richness of diction and the piercing intensity of image that we have come to expect from this writer. Her distinctive imagery is apparent throughout, in poems with often troubling themes. Vuyelwa Carlin w... Read more

The poems in Carlin's new collection show the richness of diction and the piercing intensity of image that we have come to expect from this writer. Her distinctive imagery is apparent throughout, in poems with often troubling themes. Vuyelwa Carlin was born in South Africa and raised in East Africa, but she has spent the last twenty years in the Shropshire countryside, a landscape she says has sunk into my soul. A prizewinner in both the Cardiff and National Poetry Competition, this is her second collection following 1991's Midas' Daughter, which received excellent reviews. Less