Mahogany Eve by Alan Payne #Chinesepoetry Stephen Payne

Stephen Payne

everyday life

and on the way up they get pushed through fewer filters

In a book presented in two halves

successful and otherwise

Mahogany Eve by Alan Payne #Chinesepoetry Stephen PayneAn exotic and ambitious collection in which deceptively simple structures are built to carry an impressive weight of interest and reference. Andrew Motion The guardian spirit of this book is a mahogany sculpture called Eve, part of the permanent collection in the Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield. Shes looking over her shoulder. Her gaze takes in journeys across the Atlantic, beaches in the Caribbean, a boarding school in Yorkshire, departures and