Shake the Kaleidoscope by G W Colkitto Victoria Kennefick From Broomfield’s own place in

From Broomfield’s own place in the revolution as an ‘internationalist’ volunteer

is language “as slippery as any other kind of wealth”

Delicate and hauntingly beautiful

I walked on into the forest is her twelfth book of poetry

excelled against all odds to become an accomplished and versatile artist

Shake the Kaleidoscope by G W Colkitto Victoria Kennefick From Broomfield’s own place inMemory, time, love and loss weave through all of G W Colkitto's poems with a resonance that moves us fluidly from yearning to insight. The master of seeing connections, Shake the Kaleidoscope finds Colkitto taking a view across the whole of life: non linear, sometimes fragmentary, imbued with whimsy and humour, but above all permeable to the scars and triumphs of loss and love. As the poems range back and forth across the years, one memory provoking