The distance between us

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This posthumous new collection of Jean Harrison’s poetry invites us to slow down and look at the world afresh. In her hands a bird becomes ‘an early twentieth century hat / displayed on a stand’, buses glide like angels and silence is a lightweight fleece. There is often a wry humour at work below the surface of these poems, and always a commitment to careful, concise observations, proving she had a painter’s eye and a poet’s heart.

Jean died in February 2020 having all but completed the manuscript of this now posthumous collection.