The Glass Aisle by Paul Henry Pura López Colomé Esther Jansma

Esther Jansma

' - Elaine Feinstein

To recommend it sounds a bit glib

Published by Nine Arches Press on 14

and indeed demands to be

The Glass Aisle by Paul Henry Pura López Colomé Esther JansmaThe Glass Aisle moves between rage and stillness, past and present, music and silence. Acclaimed poet Paul Henrys tenth book includes a moving elegy to displaced workhouse residents, set on a stretch of canal in the Brecon Beacons National Park. In the books title poem, a telephone engineer repairs a line that crosses the canal to the site of an old workhouse. Tormented by the voices of former inmates, he unwittingly connects the centuries, setting