num_pages: 72
description: In ghazals , Catherine Owen has created a collection of spare and haunting beauty. These poems, based on the Persian ghazal form, catalogue a series of losses. Those of a mother whose child is growing up and away, those of a wife losing a marriage, and overarching all of this, the loss nature suffers at the hands of humanity. Each poem is jewel-bright and sharply facetted. There are no excess words in Owen’s writing, her images and observations are all distilled to their essence. ghazals is a piercingly powerful collection.
language: English
title: Shall: ghazals
titlecomplete: Shall: ghazals
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.