Kith Jessi Jezewska Stevens Jo Bell’s poems are lyrical

Jo Bell’s poems are lyrical and joyous

A rose-covered cottage could mean isolation

in French and now in English

"He proves that he is capable of concentrated short poems as well as finely controlled long poems

Kith Jessi Jezewska Stevens Jo Bell’s poems are lyricalLove, sex, boats and friendship. And yet Jo Bells second poetry collection, Kith, is about so much more, as these bold and generous poems interweave bigger questions of place, identity and community and what these mean to us, here and now. Delighting in the belting, beautiful turn of phrase, Jo Bells poems are lyrical and joyous, but always precise and clear as birdsong. They take us the long way home, plot histories along the route of backwaters, and