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Lou SoutarHynes latest collection of poems is an invitation to savour life as it comes, Every

day brings a chance to start over, open our eyes, see glory in the rubble, “Weigh the question / where it leads”, By her use of white space, she expands the answers to all the questions she asks: “No escaping cul de sacs”, Her poems embrace the ambiguity of beauty, Her pauses, her spreadout stanzas, and indents suggest time passing under her pen and this is how she reminds us that, “Even on the darkest night, we know the sky / will clear”.
Another tour de force by SoutarHynes, well worth reading, The poems in Any Waking Morning probe deeply into love, loss, and life's darker dilemmas, They seek pathways and meaning, interrogate endings and life changes, and tap the creative energy engendered through art's ekphrastic cycles, While foregrounding the influence of contemporary ideas on the author's poetic explorations, the collection returns inevitably to images, insights and experiences from the Caribbean and the author's early life.
Unfolding in four sections: "The Way Light Falls," "Unmasked," "Beyond Convergence," and "Fragments and Heartwood," SoutarHynes' images are vividly pictorial,