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the welsh agenda: 'Wild is an excellent poet'

Got home to a gorgeous review of Windfalls in the welsh agenda! 

‘Wild uses her poetry to create shards of experience into beautiful objects for display, handing them over to her reader for inspection. Taking up this invitation is a joy … Windfalls is excellent poetry: Wild is an excellent poet … For well-crafted and enjoyable poetry, you could not do much better.’






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