Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls by Peter Riley #Bloodaxebooks making Brother a searing but

making Brother a searing but ultimately up-lifting journey of grief

James Berry's assumed patois when he reads "Defendant in a Jamaican Court" brings the voice - "Yes I did chop him

he was clear-sighted as he faced the end

The arrangement translated here has only appeared in German as Aus Taschen-Büchern und Merk-Blättern

’ Sean O’Brien

Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls by Peter Riley #Bloodaxebooks making Brother a searing butThe Upper Calder Valley, in the westernmost part of Yorkshire, is a landscape of high moors, small farms and wooded hillsides, rising steeply from the market towns situated along the valley. It is the setting for many of the poems in Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls, in which the conditions of movement (of buses, trains, water and wind) are set against the conditions of stillness (the abandoned chapels and demolished mills that persist at