"Crowe knows just how
much to give and how much to hold back, offering fleeting glances and
sometimes strange images... These are sinewy, questing poems, alive
with memory and attentive to the interior landscape."
???????????????????PBS
selectors on Figure
in a Landscape
"Words which come to mind
when reading Anna Crowe's wonderful poetry are 'honest',
'affectionate', 'elegiac', 'skilful', 'natural', 'lucid'.
?????????????????????? ???Douglas
Dunn on Punk
with Dulcimer
With
their inviting blend of elegance and musicality, and captivating
breadth of cultural reference, Anna Crowe's poems offer an
illuminating insight into the marvels of and uncanny links between
the natural world and its creatures, and the shifts of light and
shade in our own lives ? most touchingly, when vulnerable and
bereft. Not
on the Side of the Gods, constantly
demanding a pause for reflection or gasp of wonderment, is both
celebratory and ? as in the opening poem, ?The Gecko? ?
imbued with a heart-stopping tenderness and sense of loss.
??????????????????????????Stewart Conn
I
read Not
On The Side Of The Gods with
growing admiration. It was like wandering through a fabulous living
museum, filled with places and plants, birds and other creatures and,
often, most movingly, with the people they call to mind. Anna Crowe
does exactly what the caddis-fly larva does in her poem, 'Jeweller in
the Galerie �lectra, Paris' - building for each vulnerable creature
a house of jewelled words. What I came away with was not just the
richness and precision of her descriptions but a cornucopia of
sounds, not least the wonderful music of her voice..
??????????????????????????Vicki
Feaver