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A Friable Earth, Paperback / softback Book

A Friable Earth Paperback / softback

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Jackie Wills brings a multitude of characters to these poems including a young man sleeping in his car, an amateur entomologist, bird catchers, her jilted aunt, Ray Dorset, the three Robins, the office cleaner, family, friends and several gardeners.

Her poems move from the GP surgery to eye clinic, dance studio to allotment, back and forward in time and from Brighton's streets to the landscapes of South Africa.

In this collection, a woman caught unawares by a changing body and attitudes as she ages strains to see the funny side of her last smear.

But there are also many elegies and tributes to old friends in A Friable Earth, Wills' sixth collection of poems.

Her work has been described as irreverent, bewitching, compassionate and surreal. She's written extensively about women's lives. She's also worked an allotment for 20 years.

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