Extended Family

Overview

Subtle interactions between nuclear family members are at the core of this light-hearted and witty collection of poems in which poignant observations are made about love, death, and human nature. The energies and cadences of speech are beautifully echoed in these revealing poems about passion, anger, tenderness, and gratitude.

Reviews

"Linda Chase has a mature voice, encompassing the weight of experience as well as intensity of feeling." —Ambit magazine

"Powerful and mature, sensual and acerbic." —James Sale, author, Tears in the Fence

"Punchy, direct, moving, but unsentimental . . . These are poems to admire and return to. A talent to watch." —R. V. Bailey, author, Marking Time

Author Biography

Linda Chase is a coordinator at the Poetry School–Manchester and a part-time lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the author of The Wedding Spy.