Like the burgeoning sounds of morning from which Dawn Chorus takes its name, these poems emerge from the darkness of urban isolation into brilliant wilderness. More than half of the world’s humans...

What sets Pettway's poems apart more than any other virtue is the subtle but insistent sense of irony they convey—one of the rarest and most valuable aspects of any art, but especially of poetry.

Alice Pettway's second collection, in which the light of family and tradition is so bright it sometimes singes. These poems cast the lure of the unknown against the certainty of return.

A collection of poetry exploring the emotional droughts and harvests that punctuate daily life, from a market in Mozambique to the cracked clay of Texas.