Wanted by Tiffany Anne Tordut Helen Calcutt time-honoured poets are here –

time-honoured poets are here – William Wordsworth

born in the 1960s

taking on a more hushed

they return to the urgency of conversation: that fragile bridge across the frozen attitudes that divide our world

BeforeYou (2012) Quinn’s impressive first collection

Wanted by Tiffany Anne Tordut Helen Calcutt time-honoured poets are here –Wanted is chiefly a book about the resilient female spirit, containing the idea of resilience as much as female abuse and sacrifice. The resulting monologues are ranging in style from outlaw to lyric and dialect yet cohere through themes and forms as they explore what it means to want and be wanted: women munitions workers wanted by the government, a daughter wanting relief for her suffering father, the desire for love and self worth, a Goddess