How the Bicycle Shone Paula Meehan Andy Kershaw

Andy Kershaw

in their off-kilter and often painful encounter with childhood loss

Metaphysical and lyrical

"Sojourner" (2004) and a collection of new poems

How the Bicycle Shone Paula Meehan Andy KershawDenise Levertov described Allnutt's poems as 'at once hard and delicate, like wrought iron'. They are both serious and light in touch, deeply humane and spiritually profound, showing the spirit surviving amongst the tatters of Christianity in a modern wilderness. "How the Bicycle Shone" includes selections from her books "Spitting the Pips Out" (1981), "Beginning the Avocado" (1987), "Blackthorn" (1994) and "Nantucket and the Angel" (1997), as well as