Forgetting my Father by Jill Abram John Greening Westcott’s poems are alive to

Westcott’s poems are alive to the beautiful in the commonplace and offer up a precise honouring of the wild

Transformational and challenging

organic and rewarding architectures and for those familiar with the earlier books

writing with passion of the Welsh language and identity for which she campaigns

Forgetting my Father by Jill Abram John Greening Westcott’s poems are alive toJill Abrams Forgetting my Father is a poignant portrait of family life and a daughters bond with her ailing father. Abrams poetry is warm and gentle, keeping a space for the moment: I remember Dad when he still remembered me. Abram writes of love, hope and loss in tender and neatly observed poems, which, in the words of Dylan Thomas: rage against the dying of the light. PRAISE for Forgetting My Father: Jill Abram's poetry is richly detailed, precious