but the first full-length book written in the Dorset dialect for many decades
It is a book that makes a space for itself in the disruptive pleasures of writing
But then the phone lights up
where to view anything culminates in breathing through time that ‘cuts through words’
There is balm for the soul
What You Want by Maureen N. McLane Annie Morris but the first full-length bookIn her first book of poems since What I'm Looking For: Selected Poems 2005 2017, Maureen N. McLane offers a bravura collection of perceptive poetic meditations. What You Want is a book of landscapes, mindscapes, and shifting moods. Here are poems filled with gulls and harbours, blinking red lights and empty lobster traps, beach roses and rumoured sharks, eels and crows, wind turbines and superhighways. Sensitive, lyrical, alert to seasons and