BOOK REVIEW: Rhian Elizabeth reviews This Common Uncommon for Nation.Cymru

'The collection hopes to give the West Cross Common a voice, to speak to for it as it cannot speak for, or defend, itself. The poems themselves leap from the pages just like the sky larks and blackbirds and wrens and bats and frogs they so beautifully describe, all of whom are set to lose their homes.

'It is lyrical and whimsical and serious. Some of the more poignant poems use personification as a clever tool that implores you to empathise with the common by thinking of it as a mother, a woman, or to simply hear it speak as if it was able to.'

Thanks so much to Rhian Elizabeth for this wonderful review of Rae Howells' second poetry collection This Common Uncommon on Nation.Cymru.

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