Dreaming of Dead People John Killick Kathryn Simmonds’ first book of

Kathryn Simmonds’ first book of poems

Celebrated for her signature insight and precision

art and photography

‘Spring 1946’

and a chapter from his first novel (until now not translated)

Dreaming of Dead People John Killick Kathryn Simmonds’ first book ofIn the middle of life although this is only thirty six and with the unsparing eye of a portraitist, Lavinia reviews her frustrations and her solitariness, the grief and the rapture: these are her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the medieval masks of Owl, signifying winter, and Cuckoo, for erotic love. In attendance are dreams of rustic places and once dear animals. But it is no ordinary procession, for her childhood comes