Lode by Gillian Allnutt So J. Lee Sharp and sensitive in their

Sharp and sensitive in their imagery

‘A Psalm for the Scaffolders’ is a hymn for her father’s profession

and in her fourth full-length collection

Both a howl of anguish and an eloquent counter-song against totalitarianism

‘The energy and vivacity of Clare Shaw’s writing

Lode by Gillian Allnutt So J. Lee Sharp and sensitive in theirThe lode in Gillian Allnutts title picks up on two of the many meanings of the word. A lode can be a course, a way, a journey; also a road, a lane. Her collection traces a journey through time, the time of her own life and of our lives, since the Second World War. Lode also means guidance, here the guidance afforded by the continuity and relative stability economic, cultural, spiritual of Britains postwar years, the setting of the first part of the