Bearings SJ Fowler With this knowledge of grief

With this knowledge of grief

"Beginning the Avocado" (1987)

now and later in an eternal present that makes them immediate

At the core of the book is The Yellow Room

From a house drowning in roses to crickets on an August day

Bearings SJ Fowler With this knowledge of griefIn her fourth collection, Isobel Dixon takes readers on a journey to far flung and sometimes dark places. From Robben Island to Hiroshima, Egypt to Edinburgh, the West Bank and beyond, these poems are forays of discovery and resistance, of arrival and loss. Bearings sings of love too, and pays homage to lost friends and poets the voices of John Berryman, Michael Donaghy, Robert Louis Stevenson and others echo here. And there is respite for the weary