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The Colour of Rain, Paperback / softback Book

The Colour of Rain Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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The Colour of Rain is Susan Utting's fifth full collection, following her New and Selected, Half the Human Race.

Here she demonstrates a new-found intimacy with the natural world, a closeness that leads her to become part of it.

She 'becomes' a Willow Sister, joins an avenue of poplars, has conversations with bees. And while nature is joyfully celebrated, poems also lament its losses: felled trees. disappearing species, Rachel Carson's all too present 'Silent Spring'. The poet's trademark musicality and dancing rhythms are in evidence throughout the collection's four sections.

Her fascination with language, its sounds and resonances, demonstrate reviewer Philip Gross's comment that 'Utting unashamedly loves language, and it seems to love her back.'

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