Cuckoo by Nichola Deane Pedro Mir  by Frank Ormsby

 by Frank Ormsby

Her words are a disruption of comfort

Published posthumously in 1971

focused entirely on the event of how imagination finds words and rhythms that make certain mental experiences memorable

George Charlton

Cuckoo by Nichola Deane Pedro Mir  by Frank OrmsbyNichola Deanes rich and sensuous poems may open with a plainspoken line or a recognisable surface, but they dwell only briefly in the familiar actual. Her syntax and image making both equally bold bring the world to us in new and compelling guises. These are poems of darkness and delight alive to sensation and feeling, and open to the urgency of beauty. Katharine Towers Nichola Deanes imagination has a long reach that pulls the unexpected into line