Balladz by Sharon Olds Jonathan Totman from nocturnes and lullabies in

from nocturnes and lullabies in hilly Port of Spain to 'stillness exercises' recording microenvironments – emotional and aural – around English trees

meeting her own child self as she comes of age in the riotous 80s and 90s

of disability

From the perspective of a female photojournalist

Balladz by Sharon Olds Jonathan Totman from nocturnes and lullabies inArguably America's greatest living poet, Sharon Olds enters her eightieth year with a book for our times: a book of fear, fragility and love of life***NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST******AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***'Sharon Olds is a force of nature She proves triumphantly evergreen'OBSERVER'At the time of have not, I look at myself in this mirror,' writes Olds in this self scouring, exhilarating collection, which opens with a section of