Grief's Alphabet by Carrie Etter Liz Fincham surprising narrative swerve of ‘She

surprising narrative swerve of ‘She Was at the Haymaking’ and the mysterious wound in ‘A Journey’ to the exact detail of ‘the vessels tugging at their tether’ and the lighthouse keeper ‘watching the great revolving spokes / hitting the piled castles of spray’

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Grief's Alphabet by Carrie Etter Liz Fincham surprising narrative swerve of ‘SheGriefs Alphabet by Carrie Etter is a shattering elegy for the poets mother, opening a pathway through grief in spite of the impossible task of expressing such a loss. Beginning both chronologically and alphabetically, the collection moves from early life with the narrators adoption, through to the mothers unexpected death and the banal yet painful tasks which follow, such as sorting clothes and arranging the funeral. The final section deals with life