Noah by Penelope Shuttle Rebecca Elson  Into my mother’s snow-encrusted

 Into my mother’s snow-encrusted lap is about a dysfunctional mother-child relationship

hopeful poems

even for Tenderfoot's own stomach that hangs 'like a leopard in a thorn acacia tree'

Through memory and poetry he experiences revelation of a Christian depth

Dr Fulminare

Noah by Penelope Shuttle Rebecca Elson  Into my mother’s snow-encrustedOn her shelves Penelope Shuttle found several Old English dictionaries belonging to her late husband Peter Redgrove, which she studied until their strange and mysterious vocabulary found its way into a sequence of poetry. Here Shuttle's writing of animals, based upon a reading of a medieval mystery play about Noah and The Deluge, is connected and intertwined with current environmental concerns. The magic and richness of biblical stories is present as