Lily's Writing Life
Everybody needs some Lily in their life!
Rainbows Red Book of Poetry
'Do yourself a favour: buy this, curl up in your favourite chair and read it, knowing you will come away refreshed.'
Life is a complex thing. As social beings, we live side by side, sometimes in not so harmonious circumstances. This book celebrates love and tackling the challenges we face as humans. Control is not always ours.
Keep learning.
Keep growing.
Be yourself.
Do your best.
Life is complicated, yet very simple.
'These poems are layered and more formal -- with an air of William Blake or even Christina Rosetti -- but without pretension or anachronism. They still have the Lawson touch.'
'Lily Lawson has this way of making me weep.
And dance.
And understand myself a little better.
And understand others, perhaps, a little better too.'
Despite the tears rolling down my cheeks, I love this little book of poetry for reasons both sentimental and technical. The poems vary beautifully in style, which was a lovely surprise. I adore poets who can shift their rhythms and rhymes. Lawson is marvelous at it.
I also rather feel that her perceptions of life's passages and pains are profound and perhaps come from a place of compassion.
Amazon Review