Description
In the red corner: the muck, grit and harsh truths of life. In the blue corner: the beauty of the natural world and the vivid variety provided by imagination. Cathy Bryant is dancing about somewhere in between.
To continue the boxing ring metaphor to a silly (but possibly accurate) degree, the other two corners are culture and experience, the canvas is time and I'm on the ropes of conscience.
For Cathy is stuck as a misfit. Born in the south, she lives in the north. from a middle class home, she is working class by poverty and experience. She knows what it's like to be homeless, and what it's like to pick a dirty penny off the pavement and be happy to have it, and she also know the correct way to address a duchess, and whether to put the milk in first. She doesn't fit in anywhere - except at poetry events, where you can't know whether the person next to you is a convicted felon, a linguistics professor, or both.
About the Author
Cathy Bryants lives near Manchester and her previous publications include two single author poetry collections published: Contains Strong Language and Scenes of a Sexual Nature and Look At All the Women. Over 200 poetry and short story publications in magazines and anthologies - all kinds of publications from The Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine to My Father Lost Me to the Beast at Cards!
Reviews
Bryant is given to firing from the hip, the poems barely containing at times the incandescent exuberance of what she is driven to express.
* The Lake *Book Information
ISBN 9781909208568
Author Cathy Bryant
Format Paperback
Page Count 64
Imprint Arachne Press
Publisher Arachne Press
