A Lift of Wings - Softcover

Kerry Darbishire s poems combine delicacy with unflinching observation, evoking a Cumbrian landscape rich with memory and finely-sketched characters. This is an achieved and wise first collection, a tapestry of skilful soundwork and image, of fells, family and a struggle to hold everything in balance poetry for life. --Judy Brown

Kerry Darbishire s collection A Lift of Wings address grief, loss, memories and love with a touch that is sensitive and lyrical. Her poetry is both well crafted and musical, never forced. The title is well chosen and perfectly suits the lift and fall of her work. The language is close to the earth. Nowhere is this deep love of place more clearly shown than in the poem The River Bratha that runs like a flock of Herdwick. In Mr Mounsey is language Heaney would be familiar with in its strength, clarity and simplicity. Darbishire s poems shine luminously in an often dark world that sometimes seems devoid of compassion. --Geraldine Green

The poem s in Kerry Darbishire s A Lift of Wings are rooted in memory, but more than this they seem to inhabit the memories that are their starting point, recreating them with perfect detail and delving into them for new meanings. --Andrew Forster

A Lift of Wings is Kerry Darbishire s long-awaited first collection. Influenced by her rural Cumbrian surroundings, Kerry s poems will appeal to lovers of the area and the delicate balance between life and nature, together with poetry readers who enjoy accessible poetry spoken with a unique voice.