Feel Everything! by Ruth Stacey pets is in a large blue

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Taken together they affirm her belief that 'poetry is the music of being human'

First Rain in Paradise is a book about falling

Then it all swings around a poem rising up on hawk wing

tender poems speak through the sensory worlds of a first date ‘lesbian manicure’

Feel Everything! by Ruth Stacey pets is in a large blue"A book of love, magic, loss and the senses, Feel Everything! enchants the reader with Stacey's playful and hypnotic language. These are poems to return to again and again." Katherine Baxter 'These are poems of natural grace and confidence, whose readability and joy comes from a Herculean research endeavour. By turns funny, sad and visionary, with an extraordinary imagistic felicity that meets its subject on equal terms. As a collection it raises the