Every outline is distinct, every colour dazzling.
In Lintel , she writes about the loneliness of human beings on a crowded earth and, like Yeats, probes the 'pilgrim soul' voyaging through life. Allnutt's poems themselves become pilgrimages. Some are to places of recognised beauty and spirituality, such as the island of Lindisfarne, others to a deserted factory in County Durham or to a brickyard in Camberwell. They record moments of pressure, longing and illumination. What is most attractive about her work is that she is never solemn about the spiritual life which fascinates her.