Gill Horitz
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Reviews of ‘All the Different Darknesses’
published by Cinnamon Press‘Gill Horitz’s poetry is precisely focused and intricately made. It imports large, at times terrifying, landscapes into small, almost claustrophobic, interiors where we may live a while with the poet. It demands to be read carefully, but the rewards of a reader’s care are rich.
The poems remember pasts and dream futures – sometimes, vice versa – in which the untouchable is rendered sensuous and the unthinkable is rigorously thought through. Listen to Horitz’s characteristic diction; love her intelligence; appreciate her fine-tuned feminism; admire her passion. Having valued her work for a long time I’m pleased to enjoy the full strength of this gathering.’
Paul Hyland
‘. . .these poems reflect both personal and broader darknesses, but dark also needs light to give it a purpose, a balance, and this collection does that...’
Maya Pieris, South magazine
‘...These are existential poems. They have a microcosmic quality, provoking thought that - for me at least - takes wing and flies out from the intimate
but not-so-cosy spaces where they are set.This is, of course, how a great deal of poetry works, but here I admire both the precision and the economy
of the writing, more often than not expressing a great deal with short and simple words.’
Richard Freeman, Tears in the Fence
‘Precision of imagery is what makes (the poem) work for me. . . Gill has taken control of the content of her childhood and given it a forceful shape that
we can understand.’
Julia Darling