Small Moon Curve by Roz Goddard Philip Terry This is poetry as initiation

This is poetry as initiation

/ dying huddled together – / these floral tributes’

the other hallucinatory

Travel implies vulnerability

and chickens who dream at night of their dino ancestors’ ‘dagger teeth’

Small Moon Curve by Roz Goddard Philip Terry This is poetry as initiationSmall Moon Curve by Roz Goddard is an intimate poetry memoir exploring what it means to ease open to the restorative powers of love, faith and beauty following diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer. In this compelling, tender and deeply moving testimony, the narrator discovers a surprising and powerful affinity with Tess of the DUrbervilles as spiritual companion and guide through the challenging currents of illness, trauma and transformation.