Partial Shade: Poems New and Selected by John Birtwhistle Penny Boxall Ariadne Radi Cor was born

Ariadne Radi Cor was born in Trento

searing poems that break your heart so fast you hardly notice you’re standing knee deep in a pool of implications

Thematically composed on the anniversary of her death at Fotheringhay

In Desiring Machines

Bantam brings three generations into sharp focus – Kay’s own

Partial Shade: Poems New and Selected by John Birtwhistle Penny Boxall Ariadne Radi Cor was born'Partial Shade' is the common gardening term for plants that in fact need a measure of sunshine. In John Birtwhistle's poems, there is a continual play of light and shadow and even glimpses of 'full sun'. This selection from his own work does not follow chronology. It is an entirely fresh ordering, in which poems converse and argue with each other across the years. Lines about politics, parenting, mortality, art (and love, 'that bookish theme') are