Girls and Handsome Dogs Non-Fiction They are not told where

They are not told where their parents are

Yet Keith finally concludes that Moodie’s ‘lack of polish seems right and she was able to maintain a precarious balance between the cogent and the absurd that reflected something in her environment that her sister’s more disciplined literary gifts were unable to catch

it requires an artistic eye and a dedication to technique in order to imbue each image with its own visual narrative

The poems are primarily lyrics

In Mary Pickford

Girls and Handsome Dogs Non-Fiction They are not told whereA lonely woman in the country attempts a crossword during a thunderstorm. Police stop a suspicious character who endeavours to explain his unusual behaviour. On his way to a dinner date, a man walks and wonders if his need is too obvious. Often comic, sometimes somber, these poems offer a narrative of the exotic and the ordinary, the ridiculous and the sublime. One good swipe with the sword at the feet and the skeleton of the poem falls down laughing.