Lode by Gillian Allnutt Vala Thorodds on human existence itself in

on human existence itself in our 21st-century consumer society

heartbreak and male-female relationships with a darker sequence about our “foremothers” who were persecuted as witches

but now an emblem of human frailty in the face of climate change

Fast Music refers as much to the fast dance music that caused Williams to run round the room on the furniture aged three as to the speed of life

In this gorgeous

Lode by Gillian Allnutt Vala Thorodds on human existence itself inThe lode in Gillian Allnutts title picks up on two of the many meanings of the word. A lode can be a course, a way, a journey; also a road, a lane. Her collection traces a journey through time, the time of her own life and of our lives, since the Second World War. Lode also means guidance, here the guidance afforded by the continuity and relative stability economic, cultural, spiritual of Britains postwar years, the setting of the first part of the