I entered without words by Jody Gladding Sasha Steensen who was its guiding light

who was its guiding light for nearly forty years

Spake is a love letter to West Midlands voice and a challenge the preconceptions and prejudices that abound about dialect and non-standard English

 The Tablet  [on My Life as a Painter]

this selection

” These broken poems create the “elusive miracle” that allows us to grasp what can not be grasped

I entered without words by Jody Gladding Sasha Steensen who was its guiding lightIn this strongly visual and environmentally engaged collection, award winning poet and translator Jody Gladding explores landscape as a source of language in lyrics that operate as physical acts in three dimensional space. Composed and printed in a landscape format, these minimal, quiet, playful, meditative, and open ended poems are experimental in form and inviting in subject. Drawing inspiration from poets like A. R. Ammons, Lorine Niedecker, Gustaf