The Colour of Rain by Susan Utting Fly on the Wall The selection of Kholin’s poems

The selection of Kholin’s poems features self-deprecating self-portraits

They support more than 1

of growing into oneself

the painful ongoing process of letting go

that see her playing with genre to explore the nature of female creativity

The Colour of Rain by Susan Utting Fly on the Wall The selection of Kholin’s poemsThe Colour of Rain is Susan Utting's fifth full collection, following her New and Selected, Half the Human Race. Here she demonstrates a new found intimacy with the natural world, a closeness that leads her to become part of it. She 'becomes' a Willow Sister, joins an avenue of poplars, has conversations with bees. And while nature is joyfully celebrated, poems also lament its losses: felled trees. disappearing species, Rachel Carson's all too present