Penumbra by Kate Behrens Poetry but to what world do

but to what world do they correspond

Magisterial in its command and range

jihadi suicide-bombers and singing yellowhammers parade through the book in an incendiary combination

A student of the everyday

Penumbra by Kate Behrens Poetry but to what world doIn Penumbra, Kate Behrens third collection, the poems are linked by themes of dislocation and heredity. If the dead are ever present here, so is love: the absence of, rewards and longing for it, the endurance and effort of it. We are led from the poets bohemian childhood to the complex grief, in middle age, that followed the death of her painter father, and on to individual animals, people, and even trees that are differently uprooted or burdened.