Here On Earth by Jeffrey Wainwright Ruth Stacey she finds moments of grace

she finds moments of grace or consolation in memory

Well-read and curious

retain the power to shock

His decision would have been informed by realities of war

her perspective is constantly interrogated and even in her most materially resonant moments

Here On Earth by Jeffrey Wainwright Ruth Stacey she finds moments of graceWe are still here on earth, and with a troubled sense of wonder Jeffrey Wainwright's new collection acknowledges life's sufficiency. The poems evoke Ruskin as writer and artist, his insistence on precision, the thing seen in fullness rather than the seer, the object rather than the subject in the foreground. Ruskin: 'the best drawing masters are the woods and hills'. The poet addresses old friends, with whom he's grown up and then old. He engages them