Folded Purse by Tessa Berring Ruth Stacey Whether teasing back the layers

Whether teasing back the layers of family relationships or joining the adventure of a woodlouse scurrying across a page

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Folded Purse by Tessa Berring Ruth Stacey Whether teasing back the layersTessa Berrings Folded Purse is a rigorous and playful study of the known world and its ultimately unknowable things. Within its folds, poems call to, sometimes quarrel with, each other as images (a warm spell, an outdoor cow) slip from one poem to another. Some of these poems offer miraculously vivid excavations of such everyday objects as the humble scatter cushion, while others ache with the longing to touch, really touch, everything everything