Holdfast - Paperback

by Dayna Davis (Author)

These poems have grown from quiet ground. They awaken the senses, bring the reader close, illuminate. "Raven beaks colour, tricking the light, his feather a prism releasing violet and night". This is a collection of rich imagery with a musicality of language that is compellng. Themes of innocence, wonder, forgiveness, grief and loss run through landscapes of childhood, motherhood and the emergence of the writing life. "before you knew...that a heart's purse, fully opened, could invite anything but gold"

Themes of family, loss and friendship are predominant. Reflections on the emergence of the writing voice run through.