Touched by Alan Buckley Russell Jones But the genius of her

But the genius of her poetry is to take the literal beyond itself into memorable and surreal flights of metaphor

Yet it has long remained a hidden territory - and even now

one of the most powerful poetic statements of the year

First poet of the world for some things

helping us face or embrace daily change and disruption

Touched by Alan Buckley Russell Jones But the genius of herSome kinds of human damage are invisible and Not suffering in silence goes against the grain, as Alan Buckley says in Script. But the poems in Touched, his first full collection, do speak out. With delicacy and precision, they explore how it is to live with the psychological impact of trauma. In this landscape of risk, where the prospect of healing means everything, trust is perilous. As for lovewell, love is no less than terrifying. But not