This Thing of Blood & LoveThis Thing of Blood & Love, Lesley Saunders fifth collection with Two Rivers Press, is an intense examination of human culpability, the secrets we half keep from ourselves, the contradictory selves we inhabit, the histories that live on unreconciled in us, the planet whose imperfect stewards we are; and above all the unfathomable mystery of being (in) a body, incarnated, made flesh a thing of blood and love that betrays us with its appalling

From reviews of Radio Mast Horizon:

in the jazz world and beyond

2009) and Noteworthy: Images of Music (Seren

keeps us awake:

both past and present

2004) – and has widely published poetry

sexual tension and kink

lower-middle class family

But not only the hopeful and the decent are coming together in ever-greater numbers

000 Welsh Book of the Year in 2007

Jack saw it as an act of simple humanity

unpublished poets from the Caribbean