Lode by Gillian Allnutt Vala Thorodds but one that arises from

but one that arises from the serenity of an extended

There is a genuine search going on here

heartbreak and male-female relationships with a darker sequence about our “foremothers” who were persecuted as witches

“In Alex Mazey’s singular fusion of visual and Cute poetics

Lode by Gillian Allnutt Vala Thorodds but one that arises fromThe lode in Gillian Allnutts title picks up on two of the many meanings of the word. A lode can be a course, a way, a journey; also a road, a lane. Her collection traces a journey through time, the time of her own life and of our lives, since the Second World War. Lode also means guidance, here the guidance afforded by the continuity and relative stability economic, cultural, spiritual of Britains postwar years, the setting of the first part of the