Here to Stay by Clare Phillips
Clare Phillips' first full poetry collection (64 pages) is the fruit of many years of writing, travels and experience. These poems conjure corners of memory, the vibrant and sometimes harsh world of a rural childhood in the 1950s and 60s, growing up and the pains, losses and shift into adult life. Poet-editor Hugh McMillan says of her work: "In a literary world of showboating and braggadocio, how inspiring to find a writer committed solely to turning experience into the most beautiful, skilled and finely tuned poetry."
Clare Phillips' first full poetry collection (64 pages) is the fruit of many years of writing, travels and experience. These poems conjure corners of memory, the vibrant and sometimes harsh world of a rural childhood in the 1950s and 60s, growing up and the pains, losses and shift into adult life. Poet-editor Hugh McMillan says of her work: "In a literary world of showboating and braggadocio, how inspiring to find a writer committed solely to turning experience into the most beautiful, skilled and finely tuned poetry."
Clare Phillips' first full poetry collection (64 pages) is the fruit of many years of writing, travels and experience. These poems conjure corners of memory, the vibrant and sometimes harsh world of a rural childhood in the 1950s and 60s, growing up and the pains, losses and shift into adult life. Poet-editor Hugh McMillan says of her work: "In a literary world of showboating and braggadocio, how inspiring to find a writer committed solely to turning experience into the most beautiful, skilled and finely tuned poetry."