Riverrun by Alan Baker the noisy classroom in which Sientje recalls the

in which Sientje recalls the street where she spent her childhood and the lost world of old Jewish Amsterdam

politics and the natural elements… some of his poems read like translations from war-ravaged Eastern Europe

They are poems of love and death

and from the stimulus of the other’s poem arriving in the e-mail in-tray

MacGillivray is the Highland name of writer and artist Kirsten Norrie

Riverrun by Alan Baker the noisy classroom in which Sientje recalls thePoets have their rivers Charlotte Smith has the Arun, Michael Drayton the Ankor and like these precursors, Alan Baker has picked the sonnet as the vehicle to translate the ever changing fluvial reality of water at its riverrine transformations into a stop go sequence, that changes perspective with each fresh look, each new thought. Written at speed, the Trent, becomes Bakers mutable, silent, ultimately unreliable frontier: he cant keep mute immobile