John Kinsella, Consolations: After Boethius ‘Cai captures both the tender

‘Cai captures both the tender and the shocking

though she also finds

And shot down

ISBN 978-1-925735-05-5

John Kinsella, Consolations: After Boethius ‘Cai captures both the tenderThis is a demanding, eloquent book, energised by rapid shuttling between satire, elegy, disquisition, long and close up views of birds and plants. Entertaining but deeply serious, refusing prefabrication, it adds a new level of achievement to the John Kinsella repertoire and it deserves to be widely read. JOHN KERRIGAN Consolations is book length sequence of poems that considers how we might find space for solace and relief amidst the trauma of a