A Tug of Blue by Eleanor Hooker Will Harris – Billy Collins

– Billy Collins

a lonely pensioner holds a tower block fête

the first of which was taken on the day when he was born

Sylvia Plath

A Tug of Blue by Eleanor Hooker Will Harris – Billy CollinsEleanor Hookers second collection of poems sees her move increasingly beyond the confines of home into a more profound relationship with the elements. Images of house and home besieged by storms (Rain pushes under slates and spits on the floor) open into poems where the poet discovers new versions of herself in the mirror of lake water, in the reflections language makes possible, if not inevitable. The haunting and haunted atmosphere of her first