Double Negative by Vona Groake Jean Sprackland Milne moves between Beckett and

Milne moves between Beckett and Brecht

Winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

the 2016 edition contains a revised introduction and updated author biographies

a tragedy and a manifesto for the utopian imagination

Double Negative by Vona Groake Jean Sprackland Milne moves between Beckett andIn this, her seventh collection, Vona Groarke considers the subject of ageing, fearlessly exploring its culverts and cul de sacs while also checking this earnestness with sharp wit and trademark style. Here candour is mediated by humour. These are sensual and sensitive poems, written in language asked to be beautiful, wry and true about topics usually either ignored or obscured with greyness and clich. Hailed by The Irish Times as a poet of great self