Two Rivers Press Colour of Rain

The Colour of Rain is Susan Uttings fifth full collection, following her New and Selected, Half the Human Race. Here she demonstrates a new-found intimacy with the natural world, a closeness that leads her to become part of it. She becomes a Willow Sister, joins an avenue of poplars, has conversations with bees. And while nature is joyfully celebrated, poems also lament its losses: felled trees. disappearing species, Rachel Carsons all too present Silent Spring. The poets trademark musicality and dancing rhythms are in evidence throughout the collections four sections. Her fascination with language, its sounds and resonances, demonstrate reviewer Philip Grosss comment that Utting unashamedly loves language, and it seems to love her back. Autorid: Susan Utting