Before the Rain Caroline Hardaker This complexity is balanced with

This complexity is balanced with a resolute joy and humour

‘Everything that mattered gone in the morning

The Artist’s Room (Pighog Press

housing and transport

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Before the Rain Caroline Hardaker This complexity is balanced withIn bringing together poems and short stories in one collection, Christine Craig looks both inward at herself as the reflector and celebrant of the experiences of a long life, and outward as the observer and creator of the dramas of other lives. Her world encompasses hazard, cruelty, and the abuse of power but it is seen with a hopeful eye that pays homage to the resourcefulness of Jamaican aunties, finds joy in the promiscuity of a garden nurtured by