74 pages. This much-anticipated first collection of poems by Dorothy Lawrenson captures the fleeting wonders of the natural world and domestic scenes in ways that invite us to look anew. Given to the River is hailed by Scotland’s Makar Peter Mackay as a ‘delightful, big-hearted, open-hearted book’ and by Janette Ayachi as a ‘perfect capture of the tension between permanence and transience’.
74 pages. This much-anticipated first collection of poems by Dorothy Lawrenson captures the fleeting wonders of the natural world and domestic scenes in ways that invite us to look anew. Given to the River is hailed by Scotland’s Makar Peter Mackay as a ‘delightful, big-hearted, open-hearted book’ and by Janette Ayachi as a ‘perfect capture of the tension between permanence and transience’.
