Love Leans over the Table

‘What it means to parent and be parented, to love or be loved, to feel grief or be filled with faith are questions that Rosie Jackson examines in this extraordinary collection. There is a restless energy and a searching intelligence at work here – creating startling, moving poems that explore the porous, shifting boundary between the historical and the contemporary’ — KIM MOORE

‘In these honest, eloquent, compelling poems, Rosie Jackson enters all the realms – physical, emotional, mental and particularly the spiritual – as the collection unfolds. Her evocations of the lives of the mystics are a rare pleasure. Love Leans over the Table confirms Jackson as a searching, accomplished and necessary contemporary voice’ — MONIZA ALVI

‘The extraordinary thing about Rosie Jackson’s poems is that she is so utterly present in all of them, her voice lit up by a “joyful shining.” The whole book brims with life and energy and it really is quite wonderful’ — JENNY LEWIS

‘This book invites us to consider issues we may find either unthinkable or reflecting a set of values and beliefs we do not share. However, the openness and heartfelt honesty of this invitation makes the poems irresistible. Varied in form: single stanzas longer than a page, couplets and quatrains, prose poems and a diary, they sparkle with inventive language and images… Overall, a rich, distinctive collection, it had me thoroughly gripped.’ JENNY HOCKEY in Orbis