Dorothy by Neil Rathmell poets in all their strength and

in all their strength and vulnerability

slyly humorous

of edges and extremes

I mean a mind in evidence in the poems that can constantly surprise itself in the turns of speech

and austere

Dorothy by Neil Rathmell poets in all their strength andOne evening when they are sitting quietly together she breaks the silence and starts to talk Dorothy tells the complete story of a Yorkshire woman, in verse, from her birth early in the last century to her death in the first years of this. Like so many of her generation, she lived a life both ordinary and extraordinary; shaded by grief, troubled by family dynamics, and restricted by the realities of class, location and gender. Hers was a life where