Dilys Wood
Review
Milne Graden Poems, Laurna Robertson
Lapwing Chapbooks, 2008
Milne Graden Poems, Laurna Robertson, £2.50 ISBN 0-9554056-9-6
Laurna Robertson in Milne Graden Poems tackles aspects of recent grim history, for example in her poem Archive: Budapest and in her complex little poem, Whereupon the Assassin, also in several poems with more mysterious subject matter, haunting us with warnings, “Don’t stop for the Sorrow Sisters .... Don’t look into their eyes / or they’ll draw thick, dark lines / round your brightest memory” (Zero). There is great restraint, skill, invention and subtle suggestion in these poems. I thought The Blackthorn Broach, Beginnings and Rising were particularly well realised. This pamphlet gives an excellent idea of her range and we want more.
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