The Horse And The Girl is a series of 30 linked narrative poems, conversations between the 'Horse And The Girl, ' looking at issues such as relationships, climate change, growing older, life, death and change in general. It offers a wry, poignant look at the world around us, with a strong environmental slant. Something between Conversations With God and The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, And The Horse - bestsellers both - these rhyming poems detail the imagined dialogues that occur between the main protagonist and the horse she rides.There is wisdom, there is profundity, and there's a charming style to the works which - despite embracing themes of ageing, death, and the dangers that are palpably present to our environment - are lightly penned and seem to whinny, canter, and trot this way and that, carrying the reader on a journey that's emotional as well as heartfelt. In all, it's a sweetly affecting book, and very accessible to any reader.
The Horse and the Girl : Poems