Ten Poems about Angels By Candlestick Press
SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY ROMALYN ANTE VARIOUS AUTHORS
Human beings have always needed angels – figures to illuminate our lives and care for us. This anthology offers earthly and celestial angels, who appear in a nurse’s uniform or a flash of light, to lift us up towards belief, survival and love.
We meet a grandmother whose amazing love is celebrated and even a dog whose tail wagging wakes its adoring owner. Elsewhere, an angelic statue offers a moment of reflection for all who zoom past:
“I glimpsed our destination
in the rear-view glass
and in my heartbeat
heard the pulse of outspread wings.”
from ‘The Angel of the North’ by Ian Parks
Poems by Romalyn Ante, Ellen Bass, Emily Dickinson, Philip Gross, Susan Harris, Ian Parks, Cheryl Pearson, Pascale Petit, Roger Robinson and Joanna Sedgwick.
Cover illustration by Sarah Kirby.
