Devil's Piece by Lynn Valentine Judith Willson Places without words become focal

Places without words become focal points: the poems seek articulation in life before birth and after death

Grief and Fury is important and nourishing for the soul

Discovered snoozing on a mountainside above Lake Rotoiti

Drawing on work written over four decades and arranged chronologically

Devil's Piece by Lynn Valentine Judith Willson Places without words become focalIn Devils Piece loss, absence, mental illness and pain are examined with a lens so clear and lucid, the heart aches. Yet in that clarity, there is a savouring of the smallest things and a permeability to love and life that creates songs of what might have been dirges. There is no dressing up of reality, no pretence that everything is well, but in these fearless, precise poems there is transformation. An exquisite collection.