UNFURLING BY ALISON LOCK
This beautiful and delicate poetry collection explores the fleeting glimpses of joy and hope the poet discovered in lockdown through daily connections with nature, and she urges us to uncover our own fresh sources of inspiration. These poems present the enforced isolation period as a chance to reconnect with the inner self away from the everyday norms, expectations and pressures. Hedgerows are harbours, the wingbeats of swans make us feel alive – nature’s cycle can never be cancelled or stalled. These poems encourage us to re-evaluate our lives and find our own individual route to peace – a peace symbolised by the white petals of snowdrops. These are poems of meditation, of quiet observance, they are poems encouraging us to press the re-set button, to return to our factory settings and start anew, to find a new way forward within a framework of kindness and spiritual discovery. We are asked to consider how our lives effect everything around us, to nurture our hearts and attend with care to the world we live in.
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Alison Lock is an award-winning Yorkshire-based writer of poetry, prose and short stories.
