Ruth Fainlight - Selected Poems

Prose with added line breaks? Once I got down to a careful read I decided Ruth's poetry has a poetic drive and flow. Often quietly fiery;

'.....Fire the best servant

and also the most dangerous.'    (Fire).

Personal and also far ranging  poetry. There is a sequence of 19 sibyl poems: Delphic Sibyl, Shinto Sibyl, Blocked Sibyl, Hallucinating Sibyl... Each unit works as a stand-alone and she also captures the weirdness of the job; women kept in a cave by the powers that be and called upon to have visions and hear voices and prophesy. Well worth reading.