The Colour of Rain by Susan Utting Nick Drake and the edge of the

and the edge of the sensory world – converge in the final sequence of the book

grew up romanticising the political turmoil of the 1980s

an orgiastic cast of unreconstructed pie-worshipers at a Northern sculpture farm

— Cónal Creedon

The Colour of Rain by Susan Utting Nick Drake and the edge of theThe Colour of Rain is Susan Utting's fifth full collection, following her New and Selected, Half the Human Race. Here she demonstrates a new found intimacy with the natural world, a closeness that leads her to become part of it. She 'becomes' a Willow Sister, joins an avenue of poplars, has conversations with bees. And while nature is joyfully celebrated, poems also lament its losses: felled trees. disappearing species, Rachel Carson's all too present