301; fine. Here, drawing on the rituals, children’s songs, chants and superstitions of the rural West Country of England, Ira-Abel creates the twin realm through which she can make sense of an increasingly confusing and frightening world. Next to the farm is Gore Woods, Ira's sanctuary, overseen by Orlam, the all-seeing lamb's eyeball who is Ira-Abel's guardian and protector. 2022. The result is a poem-sequence of light and shadow—suffused with hints of violence, sexual confusion and perversion, the oppression of family, but also ecstatic moments in sunlit clearings, song, and bawdy humour. 75 x 1.
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Si. C.
I haven't finished properly reading Orlam yet, still stuck on 'Washed in the blood', I will endevour to carry on, and may write a better review here later. - Si Not just to yourself in your head. Poetry must be read out aloud to appreciate it fully.
But I did find that reading it out aloud to myself with a Dorset accent really made it far more alive and entertaining for myself and my friends when performed in this way. So if you can manage a Dorset accent, then you can handle this book. I think Polly owns her own woodland, nearby to where she lives.
And she probably calls it Gore woods, where she enjoys setting traps for rabbits.
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