 | 12 November 2007 |
| Reviewer: | Jeremy Hilton | | Publication: | Tears in the Fence (Issue 46) | | |
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This very powerful collection of poetry the work surges out into visions,
hallucinations, historical references. And then into the deepest darkness of
despair and back to moments of lightness, beauty and clarity. Jeremy Hilton |
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| 01 January 2007 |
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The Work of the Wind is an outstanding collection, moving and intelligent, stylistically and formerly various in its accomplishment, its more harrowing poems complemented (but never sentimentalised) by a sense of tenderness and beauty.
(Acumen 57 - January 2007)
Elizabeth Heywood |
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| 30 December 2006 |
| Reviewer: | Ian Binton | | Publication: | The Use of English Summer 2006 | | |
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There is an authentic grief here tinged with mordant humour which seems to
act as a type of reply, riposte even, to MacSweeney's own demonic
self-lacerations...In a way The Book of Demons and this new publication
should be read side by side. Ian Binton |
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| 30 December 2006 |
| Reviewer: | Andy Willoughby | | Publication: | myspace.com.willopoetry | | |
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I am re-reading SJ Litherland's amazing The Work of the Wind, especially the sonnet section. This is electrifying work and deserves as wide an audience as possible...Poetry to make your jaw drop and heart ache with life
knowledge, blood knowledge as Lawrence would have called it. Andy Willoughby |
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| 06 December 2006 |
| Reviewer: | Kevin Cadwallender | | |
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The Work of the Wind by S.J. Litherland (reading MacSweeney's The Book of Demons too) A matched pair. Fabulous tour de force from Jackie.
'A mesmerising display of technique and range, and a tremendous epitaph to a
poet (Barry MacSweeney) and a love story in case you weren't hooked
already.' Kevin Cadwallender |
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| 06 December 2006 |
| Reviewer: | R.V. Bailey | | Publication: | Envoi | | |
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'The Work of the Wind is an unusually strong collection, deeply moving, and
very accomplished. These are poems that had to be written, most of them
really love poems of one sort or another. However desperate and troubled,
there is no hint of self-pity here, only honesty and courage.' R.V. Bailey |
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| 04 August 2006 |
| Reviewer: | Michael Standen | | Publication: | Other Poetry | | |
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'a deeply impressive demonstration of how life's pains can be turned to
artistic gain.' Michael Standen |
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| 20 July 2006 |
| Reviewer: | Andy Croft | | Publication: | Morning Star | | |
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The Work of the Wind is a wild storm of words, extreme emotions and wonderful poems . . . But it is also a brave attempt to make meaning out of memory, an assertion that, through poetry, "the idea of order is presiding over the nature of fragments."
Andy Croft |
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| 20 July 2006 |
| Reviewer: | Jo Colley | | Publication: | Kenaz | | |
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The Work of the Wind is a great book, reminiscent in some ways of MacNeice's Autumn Journal in its charting of time with references to events both personal and universal. She has harnessed the wind, rescued the tumbling memories from potential chaos, and allowed it to move her forward in a burst of passionate creative energy.
Jo Colley |
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| 20 July 2006 |
| Reviewer: | Bob Nichols | | Publication: | Evening Gazette, Middlesbrough | | |
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So, to the highpoint of the night an appearance from top northern poet Jackie Litherland supported by the Hydrogen Jukebox cabaret team performing from Jackie's wonderful new book, The Work of the Wind.
Bob Nichols |
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| 20 July 2006 |
| Reviewer: | Kitty Fitzgerald | | Publication: | Scotland on Sunday: Shelf Life | | |
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An excellent new collection – The Work of the Wind – from S.J. Litherland sits on top of my reading pile.
Kitty Fitzgerald |
