Death Sentences by Toby Olson John Manson Her poetry draws its sonorous

Her poetry draws its sonorous and plangent music from the landscapes of Finland

Andrew Wynn Owen

This new edition retains the original Peter Hay illustrations

hence this new revised edition which replaces some poems with new or previously undiscovered work (highlighted in the contents list)

Death Sentences by Toby Olson John Manson Her poetry draws its sonorousDeath Sentences is Toby Olsons first major collection since Darklight (Shearsman, 2007), and many of the poems herein are addressed to his wife, Miriam, who died, after suffering for years from Alzheimers disease, in 2014. Many of the other poems, typical of Olsons concerns, stand as celebrations of what is observed, without metaphor or other literary devices intervening. The four seriesDeath Sentences, I Dont Know, Disturbed and Etudesare highly