Cranic of Ordinaries by Eliza O'Toole John Glenday The poems often sparkle with

The poems often sparkle with colour

and answers our desire to fix in words what would otherwise slip our grasp

some rework elements of Welsh history

allusive - brilliantly deploying source materials and inspiration from Hesiod's original and the 10/12th century Indian vacana poems - all bound together by the repeated refrain of bridges breaking down

— Joelle Taylor Dazzling

Cranic of Ordinaries by Eliza O'Toole John Glenday The poems often sparkle withThis cranic, or skull, of ordinaries is a landscape well known to poet Eliza O'Toole who has long tramped the Stour Valley on the Suffolk Essex border with her dog Fin, nose down tail up, urging her on. In the muddy paint water of John Constable and the rambling madness of John Clare, O'Toole takes her own step lightly into a calendar year of a landscape displaced. Chronicling the cycle of seasons, book ended by (poisonous) aconites, these poems are