Autobiology by Keith Caddy Charles Tomlinson and she is my soul')

and she is my soul')

Powerful themes emerge

sestinas and sonnets in Scots – to heady effect

Her poems operate like a dog’s sense of smell in darkness: they venture forth with a clarity heightened by a tender knowledge of the embodied quality of all things – human

Autobiology by Keith Caddy Charles Tomlinson and she is my soul')Autobiology by Keith Caddy is a spare, direct collection that treats memory as a case file, returning to formative scenes with a cool eyed tenderness and a willingness to name what hurts. Across poems of rural childhood, school cruelty, family illness, and workaday humiliation, Caddy's writing keeps its language plain but charged, allowing images to do the work, whether a kite dying on a blood stained moor, a chicken's throat slit over a drain, or a