From Rowan Ridge by Chris Kinsey Manuel Rivas brought them here today

brought them here today

including her radio play Three Women

From corrupt local councillors and lost weekend lovers to memories of youthful exuberance and present-tense mid-life panic

Originally published after the novel Winnie-the-Pooh and the verse collection When We Were Very Young

From Rowan Ridge by Chris Kinsey Manuel Rivas brought them here todayChris Kinseys writing is part of her own rootedness in mid Wales, specifically the three counties, two countries she views in High Summer on a Shropshire Hill. This poet delights in what she discovers around her, but is also attuned to her own past. Yet what she loves, even the very words for those things, is vanishing: Im surprised by you showing up just as all my praise songs turn to elegies I thoroughly recommend From Rowan Ridge, a celebration of