The Arrow-Maker by D M Black Karen McCarthy Woolf rhyme and repetition draws us

rhyme and repetition draws us unselfconsciously into passionate and complex reflections on familial and cultural identity

In Beginning with Your Last Breath

while retaining a deeply-felt sense of connection with a planet in peril

hoping the conversation will continue well beyond the back cover

The Arrow-Maker by D M Black Karen McCarthy Woolf rhyme and repetition draws usIn The Arrow Maker, D. M. Black's sensitive attention to emotional states of mind, sometimes his own, sometimes those of others such as St. Augustine, Ezra Pound, Paul Celan or Jacques Brel, also extends to more public themes of war and climate change. As always, his forms are various, but there is a predominance now of poems spoken in a thinking voice that remembers the iambic pentameter without being subdued by it. In a final section, versions of