Deltas

by Leonie Rushforth

Deltas is the first collection by Leonie Rushforth. Her poems are provisional landscapes which lead to unexpected encounters and startling revelations.

Genres: Poetry

54 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2022

Reviews

[Bohemian Book Lover · Rating 3 out of 5]

*Descriptively rich & distinctively
*Elusive,
*Leonie Rushforth
*Takes us down the lyrically fertile channels of her
*Acutely tuned & empathic poems into the depths of a
*Sea of experiences & observations. Not all of them impressed me, no matter how many times I reread to decipher their sense. But there were definitely a number of lines that stood out for me, like the following one:

"in the church a stone child holds his mother's cloak
cradled in her smile's horizon"

[Rosopsida · Rating 3 out of 5]

this was so verbose I could hardly see anything beyond the words

simple presence folded into complexity, into intricate origami folds

(but was presence
ever simple
anyways)

for an hour / recreating childlessness
some of us are celibate / some of us worship mothers
one of us has found his daughter again
he has taken her to look at trout

[Goodreeds User · Rating 3 out of 5]

evocative