The Colour of Rain by Susan Utting Nick Drake — Cónal Creedon

— Cónal Creedon

grew up romanticising the political turmoil of the 1980s

and multiple poems and stories in Gutter

the poem captures everything from dirt to ecology to philosophy

but also in his way of seeing the world

The Colour of Rain by Susan Utting Nick Drake — Cónal CreedonThe 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