Hearthstone Anna Lewis Peter Clark Memory in the

Peter Clark Memory in the Flesh by Ahlam Mosteghanemi

A selection of poems written during forty years of teaching in Britain

to rejoice in the radiant dance of one's body with another's

should weep

This collection is an intense ‘naming of parts’ made of body

Hearthstone Anna Lewis Peter Clark Memory in theBlacksmith poet, Joseph Butler, was born in Oxford in 1962. He has earned his living as a farmer, teacher, and boatbuilder as well as blacksmithing. These poems grew out of working with a family of 3 generations of blacksmiths in an Oxfordshire forge, they are linked up with the Greek myth of Hera and Hephaistos, the crippled god of fire and metalworking, and patron of craftsmen, and bound up with his own family drama. This is his first, exhilarating