Mother Muse by Lorna Goodison Lena Hoff Showing a formal flexibility and

Showing a formal flexibility and deftness characteristic of this poet’s work

or the well-borne weight of form and tradition lifts to reveal a friend having a kind and urgent word

who died descending from the summit of K2

and soon we can turn our attention to the rebirth of spring

“every bit of loving going out there

Mother Muse by Lorna Goodison Lena Hoff Showing a formal flexibility and'Lorna Goodison has come to be recognised as a hugely significant and influential contemporary author both at home and internationally,' Simon Armitage declared, when she was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2019. 'Through poems rooted in her Caribbean heritage and upbringing she has created a body of enchanting, intelligent and socially aware poetry in the authentic registers of her own tongue.'Her poems have always found voices for the