The Golden Thread by Amali Gunasekera Adam Thorpe but to call her a

but to call her a lesbian poet is an over-simplification

the eternal battle between Eros and Thanatos… It’s a tribute to Landau’s prodigious poetic gifts that she can hold the paradox in her hands so well

covering his childhood and youth

shimmering and bright

Always at the centre of her books and performances are the experiences of the body

The Golden Thread by Amali Gunasekera Adam Thorpe but to call her aBlending the sacred and the everyday, Amali Gunasekeras second collection The Golden Thread is a search for grace through the deep process of transmuting emotional trauma into peace. She takes up Muriel Rukeysers famous line: What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. Her books central sequence, Nine [Miscarried] Methods, considers the challenge of asserting a womans equal status within a patriarchal