Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls by Peter Riley #Bloodaxebooks ’ Sean O’Brien

’ Sean O’Brien

some hints at a rich

but no trace of self-pity in these verses

this anthology aims to be a touchstone of women’s thoughts and experiences

Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls by Peter Riley #Bloodaxebooks ’ Sean O’BrienThe Upper Calder Valley, in the westernmost part of Yorkshire, is a landscape of high moors, small farms and wooded hillsides, rising steeply from the market towns situated along the valley. It is the setting for many of the poems in Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls, in which the conditions of movement (of buses, trains, water and wind) are set against the conditions of stillness (the abandoned chapels and demolished mills that persist at