Full collection ISBN: 9781909357686
Published by Indigo Dreams Publishing in 2015
Susan Jane Sims’ second full collection has the loose theme of numbers after being inspired by a series of prompts by Jo Bell in Project 52.
“Like the butterfly she writes about on page 9, Sue alights first on one subject and then another, touching down delicately on each, saying enough but not too much, but with much wisdom, leaving the reader with sharp intakes of breath after many of them. Reading ‘A number of things you should know’ gave me cumulative pleasure, often such surprise I was really sorry to come to the end of it.” Caroline Carver
“Susan Jane Sims’ poems depict the deep, sensuous colour of life and explore the essence of what it is to be human. The humour, the joy, the sadness – all emotions that make up a self are present in this work. The poems are characterised by an openness and generosity of spirit that allows the reader into the poet’s world that in turn becomes the reader’s world.
‘Beyond these walls,/the faint moaning waves…/within these walls,/the muted tick, tick, tick…/In my head your voice…’”
Wendy French
