The Colour of Rain by Susan Utting Nick Drake the work-a-day and the transcendent

the work-a-day and the transcendent

grew up romanticising the political turmoil of the 1980s

the poem captures everything from dirt to ecology to philosophy

and the edge of the sensory world – converge in the final sequence of the book

The Colour of Rain by Susan Utting Nick Drake the work-a-day and the transcendentThe 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