The Penny Dropping by Helen Farish C. Perricone when you can ask a

when you can ask a kindness

Not since Sorley MacLean hymned the woods of Raasay have the ghosts of the Gaelic past bestrode the present more imperiously

elegist and hymnodist

as the author shifts his gaze outside of the US

family crises and losses through death

The Penny Dropping by Helen Farish C. Perricone when you can ask aPublished 25th April 2024. Available for pre order. The Penny Dropping offers an account of a cherished relationship from first meeting to eventual break up. Distance gives the writer a retrospective clarity from which she does not flinch despite its challenges (Look at me, laments the speaker in Pretty Woman, stepping back into the dress, pulling up the side zip, smoothing it down, as though thats all it took). But ultimately poems such as No Point