Bone Rosary by Thomas Lynch Paul Sutherland this book is a celebration

this book is a celebration of all Ayachi loves and has loved

but it is a domesticity tinged with threat: something ‘clear and ominous’ persists between the lines

orders Gawain to seek him out a year hence

Tenderness was also a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice

on ‘On Crucifixion’

Bone Rosary by Thomas Lynch Paul Sutherland this book is a celebrationAmerica's much celebrated poet undertaker Thomas Lynch is renowned for his thought provoking poems on life, faith, doubt and death. This new retrospective shows the passage of his work over time, 'a pilgrimage of sorts through growing old and facing death subjects that caregivers know all too well. Lynch's upfront, unvarnished style is likely to resolate with many who have come face to face with life's most important questions' (Mary Plummer, New York