Climbing Postcards by Judy Kendall

In her third collection Judy pushes the boundaries of poetic form in response to the discipline of climbing. Sometimes fragmented, words searching for safe resting places across the page, sometimes for two voices as climbers rope together in acts of trust. These formally brilliant pieces take us to places of beauty as well as extremity, the poetry mirroring the climb in form and linguistic dexterity, As always, the nuance and detail are perfect, the musical precision of every syllable is a delight and the vein of humour subtle and delicious.

Judy Kendall spent many years living and working in southern Africa and Japan. Her research interests are in poetic composition and the poetry of Edward Thomas, and she also works as a collaborative translator. Judy edited an anthology of Edward Thomas’s poems and related letters to contemporary poets (Carcanet)  and a book on Edward Thomas’s composing processes for University of Wales Press. Her debut poetry collection with Cinnamon Press was The Drier The Brighter. Her second collection, Joy Change, focused on poems about Japan. Judy lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Salford.