A Book of Psalms by Alan Baker Sylvia Plath a cry of loss and

a cry of loss and of nearly unbearable love

In poems that record - with courage and tenderness - the loss of loved ones

Love letters come from Libya and desperate postcards from Powys

If you fail to enjoy this sado-masochistic gem as much as I have

In his use of archival documents as a space for activism and linguistic intervention

A Book of Psalms by Alan Baker Sylvia Plath a cry of loss andA Book of Psalms is about a life retrieved in which the commonplace is made new in poetry and everyday experience is undramatically revealed as approaching the miraculous. Gazing through the windows of the public library offers a prosaic starkness, 'Leaking radiators, polished floors, books on everyday wellness' somehow transformed via a 'Leaf vein atlas suddenly awake to sun on wings,' so that in a playground, at the side of the road with cars