The Fourth Sister by Laura Scott Sarah Corbett assonance and plain speech

assonance and plain speech

offering portents of many rewarding instalments to come

sound values and rhythm … Perril has a rich command of metaphorical resource”

Partly a modern revision of the Helen myth

the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us a new collection of poems that sing of a woman's intimate life and political conscience

The Fourth Sister by Laura Scott Sarah Corbett assonance and plain speechLaura Scott's second collection, The Fourth Sister, is a book of unusual love poems. It features an assorted cast: lovers and sisters, but also parents and children, the living and the dead, birds and trees, painters, playwrights and their characters, a godfather who married the wrong man and a godmother who was surely a spy. The book's energy flows out into other lives, discovering vital connections and the gaps between them. Scott writes as a poet