Sparrows at the Breakfast Table by Richard Douglas Pennant Bob Beagrie They feel like an homage

They feel like an homage to this writer I so admire as well as a way of authentically expressing my lived experience

unsettling

here kept aloft in English by the force of Katherine Silver’s translation

Kate Noakes

emerges as a vessel for liberation

Sparrows at the Breakfast Table by Richard Douglas Pennant Bob Beagrie They feel like an homageBeautifully observed and written with a lightness and freshness that breathes life through every poem, Sparrows at the Breakfast Table invites us into a place of wonder and love. These family moments, most acute between a grandfather and grandson, are filled with gentle humour and deep tenderness. And there is nothing shallow here these poems are not whimsies but serious reflections on the bonds we make across generations and how they go on