Lode by Gillian Allnutt Vala Thorodds on human existence itself in

on human existence itself in our 21st-century consumer society

 Passport to Here and There makes a significant contribution both to Caribbean and to British poetry

but one that arises from the serenity of an extended

heartbreak and male-female relationships with a darker sequence about our “foremothers” who were persecuted as witches

Lode by Gillian Allnutt Vala Thorodds on human existence itself inThe lode in Gillian Allnutts title picks up on two of the many meanings of the word. A lode can be a course, a way, a journey; also a road, a lane. Her collection traces a journey through time, the time of her own life and of our lives, since the Second World War. Lode also means guidance, here the guidance afforded by the continuity and relative stability economic, cultural, spiritual of Britains postwar years, the setting of the first part of the