behind great Shires and Percherons
It includes some notable performance pieces from an often volatile and divisive career
and described by John Kinsella as a ‘masterpiece’
It is exciting to meet a new writer
the poems piece the stuff of their culture into surreal polemic and elegy
Proof of Life on Earth by Degna Stone Virginia Astley behind great Shires and PercheronsYou live and then you die. Thats the only certainty there is, right? Using love as its guide, Proof of Life on Earth, the debut poetry collection by Degna Stone, looks at all the stops between our arrival and our departure. These poems examine matters of the heart (both the metaphorical and medical kind), of race and discrimination, of the body, mind and self each in forensic detail, attentive and curious of what moves, shapes, and makes us alive. In