White Ink Stains Katrina Naomi ‘now there is only the

‘now there is only the river / that was always on its own way’

a tin of beans in tomato sauce – in poems which are accessible

liminal world sits at the centre of Still Life with Feeding Snake

outspoken poems as well as for her courageous defence of ethical values

White Ink Stains Katrina Naomi ‘now there is only theEleanor Browns first collection, Maiden Speech, published by Bloodaxe in 1996, included her much anthologised girlfriends revenge poem Bitcherel along with a widely praised sequence of fifty love and end of love sonnets written during her 20s. Her second collection, White Ink Stains, appearing three decades later, draws on the lives of women of all ages. Taking her title from the idea that when a woman writes about her experience as a woman, she