Conversations with Magic Stones by Vivienne Tregenza Kate Tempest These poems shimmer along the

These poems shimmer along the line between abstraction and flesh where our relationships — both intimate and public — are imagined and lived

to love’s strains and pleasures

Against a backdrop of the sounds and sensations of daily life

and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence

Taggard constantly challenged herself as a woman

Conversations with Magic Stones by Vivienne Tregenza Kate Tempest These poems shimmer along theConversations with Magic Stones commemorates the life and work of Barbara Hepworth, fifty years after her death in a fire at her home in St Ives. It goes on to explore the Hepworth themes of figures in the landscape, loss, resilience and transformation, moving from the poets home in West Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly and back again.