Healing the Pack by Clare E. Potter MD Kerr the smell of clean linen

the smell of clean linen or the rhythmic dance of two people folding sheets together

Sharon Olds

public poems and deeply personal ones

the 1848 ‘Springtime of the Nations’ and the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917

and in doing so alerts us to the flimsiness of the conceits of home

Healing the Pack by Clare E. Potter MD Kerr the smell of clean linenHealing the Pack is a book of retrieval. These are poems on the hunt for language to speak of intergenerational resilience and the power offered up by ancestors and perceptive children. Born out of working class life in a coalmining community, the work explores unsilencing. It honours those who speak through the gaps of their suffering to share their strengths. The assembled poems, which took 17 years to write, are more than descriptions of recovery,