Latch by Rebecca Goss Marvin Thompson and recognising one’s voice and

and recognising one’s voice and one’s loves amid the clamour

unspoken or undone – through the concept of negative space

and for all who have parents and have grappled with the joys and challenges of those most intimate of relationships

the Lancaster Literature Festival Competition

formed from personal experience on her life that will also resonate with many

Latch by Rebecca Goss Marvin Thompson and recognising one’s voice andLatch is a study in the act of returning. It is about reconnecting to a place, Suffolk, and understanding what it once held, and what it now holds for a woman and her family. These poems unearth the deep, lasting attachments people have with the East Anglian countryside, gathering voices of labour, love and loss proving a landscape can both harm and heal us. In this landscape, and in her fourth full length collection, Rebecca Goss again draws on her