The Colour of Rain by Susan Utting fertility innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author

innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author

Richard Price opens out remarkable northern vistas and unfamiliar narratives

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McGill Queens University Press

The Colour of Rain by Susan Utting fertility innovative Nigerian-Yoruban authorThe Colour of Rain is Susan Utting's fifth full collection, following her New and Selected, Half the Human Race. Here she demonstrates a new found intimacy with the natural world, a closeness that leads her to become part of it. She 'becomes' a Willow Sister, joins an avenue of poplars, has conversations with bees. And while nature is joyfully celebrated, poems also lament its losses: felled trees. disappearing species, Rachel Carson's all too present