Folded Purse by Tessa Berring Ruth Stacey customs and superstition

customs and superstition

Eleni Philippou

with many stories dipping into Fantasy and Science Fiction

Whether teasing back the layers of family relationships or joining the adventure of a woodlouse scurrying across a page

cures for weakness are hurled from behind department store displays

Folded Purse by Tessa Berring Ruth Stacey customs and superstitionTessa Berrings Folded Purse is a rigorous and playful study of the known world and its ultimately unknowable things. Within its folds, poems call to, sometimes quarrel with, each other as images (a warm spell, an outdoor cow) slip from one poem to another. Some of these poems offer miraculously vivid excavations of such everyday objects as the humble scatter cushion, while others ache with the longing to touch, really touch, everything everything