Addendum to a Miracle by Mike White Penny Boxall The essential continuity of her

The essential continuity of her work is immediately striking

Ruth McIlroy was a winner of The Poetry Business International Book and Pamphlet Competition 2016/17

assured and varied in technique

You hear how the poems sound

’ an elegy which explores the power of memorialisation while testifying to the power of hope

Addendum to a Miracle by Mike White Penny Boxall The essential continuity of herAddendum to a Miracle, Mike Whites second book of poetry, is a collection that explores the shifting borderland between the sacred and the profane. The poems are lucid and often quite spare, focusing upon the ordinary things of this world, yet they pulse with the energy of the unknown, the unspeakable. In poems of a more metaphysical bent, angels appear, only their haloes have come off in the autumn wind and their wings are made of city snow. Poised