We Have to Leave the Earth

We Have To Leave The Earth, Carolyn Jess-Cooke's third book of poems, deftly interweaves the personal and the political. Climate change is confronted in a portrait of the Arctic with its 'wolf winters'. 'The House of Rest' is a history in 9 poems of Josephine Butler (1828-1906), a pioneering feminist activist. There are also tender poems...