Silk Work by Imogen Cassels Linda Black Orde has a distinctive voice

Orde has a distinctive voice very much of her own

a labyrinthine memory

Here are women's bodies

the therapeutic potential of creative writing

Being Alive is the sequel to Neil Astley’s Staying Alive

Silk Work by Imogen Cassels Linda Black Orde has a distinctive voiceIn Silk Work, Imogen Cassels' debut collection, desire and grief are a double edged subject, elucidated through a kind of lyric diffidence. Forms, translations, folksongs, geographies of longing, and the work of memory are interplayed, though always with the haunting implication that the words we use to document our lives are never quite enough. As they weave multiple sources from literature, philosophy, visual art and history into ways of reading and