Launching Brother

V. Press is very very delighted to share the publication of Brother, a chapbook/pamphlet of poems by Sheila Lockhart.

“Sheila Lockhart has created something special with this pamphlet. Brother is a poignant study of remembrance but one that manages to be almost joyful in its close observation of this lost life and the still-living world that goes on without it. It is special writing – clear, brightly configured, riven by pain, and perfectly formed.”

Niall Campbell

“These calm and clear-eyed poems are remarkable in their refusal to be afraid. Holding darkness and light in delicate balance, they move from suffering and loss into what comes afterwards and later, finding consolation in the dogged aliveness of the natural world and, no less importantly, in the patterns and shapes of language itself.  Sheila Lockhart has written a bold and beautiful book.”
Katharine Towers

The poems in Brother are a very heart-felt and very unflinching consideration of grief and healing after suicide.

ISBN: 978-1-7398838-9-8                                
36 pages
R.R.P. £6.50

A sample poem can be enjoyed below.

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Gaia

In my arms you hardly weighed a thing,

the day I returned you to our Mother. 

She spread herself wide to receive you. 

Then locked her doors forever. 

The adamantine scythe left so little

when it cut you. 

Yes, there was plenty of blood, 

but where was all the rest? A seed 

forced into my heart, tangled roots. 

I remember how thirsty you were, 

how your dust soaked up the rain. 

How the roses blossomed.