Round the Mulberry Bush by Patricia McCarthy Carmen Bugan featuring characters like Zeus

featuring characters like Zeus

"Kaminsky’s poems in Dancing in Odessa seem like a literary counterpart to Chagall in which laws of gravity have been suspended and colours reassigned

Line and syntax gleam with the exquisite surprise of its own gorgeous

an ‘echo sonnet’

Round the Mulberry Bush by Patricia McCarthy Carmen Bugan featuring characters like Zeus'Like fixtures patterning the air the accumulation of experiences here resonates far beyond the covers of the book and as oaks seem to listen to the unheard and owls out perform flutes we become witnesses to an inner theatre. As Geoffrey Hill suggested it is small factual vision that leads to Gnostic awareness.' Ian Brinton'Patricia McCarthys collection Round the Mulberry Bush is an intensely compassionate, intelligent and moving elegy to her loves