The Day before Joy by Penny Sharman Abigail Parry With poems from Amy Acre

With poems from Amy Acre

tuned into the drift of the present

Subtly moored by its theme

strength moving in matters of common concern

The Day before Joy by Penny Sharman Abigail Parry With poems from Amy AcreTheres a jolting frankness to these poems. Sometimes oddly bare and powerful, they say what they mean. Mark Waldron Penny Sharmans poems have a painters touch, not just in terms of colour, form and light as invocation but in the care with which she picks words and feels her way through them to offer magical experiences that feel fresh and precise. George Szirtes Penny Sharman believes in beauty. She believes in a world where cabbage white flies low