The Bell Tower by Pamela Crowe Marosa di Giorgio and the potential of the

and the potential of the self

Resisting modernity’s unearthly glare

Stephanie Conn

This is vivid poetry which pits individual lives and ordinary days and hours and minutes against the historical events and catastrophes which would blow them away

The Bell Tower by Pamela Crowe Marosa di Giorgio and the potential of theThe Bell Tower is a collection of poems by Pamela Crowe. Cover by Amy Louise Evans. Sea drags me out. No, not sea, you. Voluble force back and forth; you dont even know youre doing it. Each time, arms stretched, legs coathangered, I stick man to the shore, land gasping, lungs to fill; I stand still looking back, so inland, more inland this time. You cannot get me now. Drying, that takes weeks. Wind ribbons to my face and lifts my greening hair; on