Uncommon Place by Gerrie Fellows Julia Bird 'Pure Hustle is a gem

'Pure Hustle is a gem of book in which Kate Potts conjures a poetry which astonishes and moves the reader

though nourished by a loving wife and the pleasures of the garden

already known for translations of Mexican poets

Dowling’s subsequent collections

she has lived mostly in England since the age of 15

Uncommon Place by Gerrie Fellows Julia Bird 'Pure Hustle is a gemUncommon Place is a book rooted in Scotland's mountains and open spaces, its fenced enclosures and mined ground. It develops from earlier books what Tom Leonard has called "the most intelligent debate between technology and nature in poetry that I know." Through rivers, weather and wild creatures, as well as through industrial landscapes and urban spaces, the poems explore a core preoccupation, that of how we experience being in place, the