A New Beginning by Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella anthology threaded with lizards and snakes…”

threaded with lizards and snakes…”

At the start of her ninth decade

her 8th collection is made from meeting

In some of her most radical work yet

Osmond has written a powerful and challenging collection of original poems representing the complex

A New Beginning by Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella anthology threaded with lizards and snakes…”When Speak from Here to There was published in 2016 it was, remarkably, doing something quite new. There are of course the conversations implied in the poems of Coleridge and Wordsworth, but no two poets had committed to, in the words of Will Harris, the almost daily structure of call and response, each utterance is filtered through the other. A New Beginning offers, as Karen McCarthy Wolf noted in her review of Speak from Here, the same warmth and a