We Have to Leave the Earth Knute Skinner gently steering itself towards reconciliation

gently steering itself towards reconciliation with loss

I sing for you with the singing voice of the morning cuckoo

1993) and Indians in British Guiana 1919-1929 (MacMillan)

’ Shouldering the burdens of a beleaguered world

Hanan al-Shaykh Excerpt from her novel

We Have to Leave the Earth Knute Skinner gently steering itself towards reconciliationWe Have To Leave The Earth is Carolyn Jess Cookes third collection and features a tripart collection of poems on interlocking themes. The first third of the book is Songs for the Arctic and looks closely at the ice landscapes being eroded by climate change. Their beauty contains a dark premonition of the future of our planet once these grand seas of ice melt. The poems are written in short, declarative lines, their rhythms echo Norse myth and arrive