Fieldgates

Joy McCall, the quintessential English tanka poet, has added another volume to her personal anthology of the Norfolk countryside. Roaming freely in her wheelchair, occasionally stymied but never stopped, she holds endless converse with the wandering souls she meets on cobbled streets and quiet rivers. Previous collections have mapped the territory of her heart, but in 'fieldgates, ' her latest collection, she places signposts and opens gates so that others may follow. Friends and strangers alike stroll the green lanes of the English countryside under her amiable guidance. Loss and grief are never far, but Joy's small poems are a balm for the traveler's heart