Addendum to a Miracle by Mike White Penny Boxall Ruth McIlroy was a winner

Ruth McIlroy was a winner of The Poetry Business International Book and Pamphlet Competition 2016/17

The essential continuity of her work is immediately striking

as far as I’m concerned’ and ‘The abuse of cauliflowers’

For the past 50 years

Addendum to a Miracle by Mike White Penny Boxall Ruth McIlroy was a winnerAddendum to a Miracle, Mike Whites second book of poetry, is a collection that explores the shifting borderland between the sacred and the profane. The poems are lucid and often quite spare, focusing upon the ordinary things of this world, yet they pulse with the energy of the unknown, the unspeakable. In poems of a more metaphysical bent, angels appear, only their haloes have come off in the autumn wind and their wings are made of city snow. Poised