Wading into the Light by Mel McEvoy Friedrich Holderlin diverse and enchanting vision of

diverse and enchanting vision of contemporary life

Jessica Reidy

Levitsky troubles the divisions within urban space

looks on with a mixture of pride and worry

of mourning and celebration: poems about music and feet

Wading into the Light by Mel McEvoy Friedrich Holderlin diverse and enchanting vision ofMany of these poems resonate with a sense of loss, not morbidly so, but almost as a contradiction where our emptiness can make us capable of compassion. The background music, or the place of origin for this work is always the narrative of emotion. The centrepiece of this collection is a sequence of poems called Sonnets of a Hospital Lift, telling the story of death and dying in a NHS hospital. We write to catch meaning, to shine light on this