Woodspurge

Woodspurge, by Jo Merrill, stands out for its qualities of unrelenting verbal imagination, wit, auditory playfulness, and love for language. The metaphors of Woodspurge that keep coming at you show an overwhelming need by the poet to connect with the mysteries at the heart of things. This collection is steady, powerful, attentive to the details of the world around us, and bold in its metaphysical energy. Surely we must appreciate a poet who asks us to think of "how to weigh the weather."