How the Bicycle Shone Paula Meehan Metaphysical and lyrical

Metaphysical and lyrical

and brings them out into the night to face each other - and their last chance to connect

"Sojourner" (2004) and a collection of new poems

including a 10th-century physicist from Basra

How the Bicycle Shone Paula Meehan Metaphysical and lyricalDenise Levertov described Allnutt's poems as 'at once hard and delicate, like wrought iron'. They are both serious and light in touch, deeply humane and spiritually profound, showing the spirit surviving amongst the tatters of Christianity in a modern wilderness. "How the Bicycle Shone" includes selections from her books "Spitting the Pips Out" (1981), "Beginning the Avocado" (1987), "Blackthorn" (1994) and "Nantucket and the Angel" (1997), as well as