Green's
mind possesses unerring musicality. She thinks musically whereas some poets
translate their thoughts into music.
Wherever
she is, Green connects with the roots and ancestry, the stories and
sense-memories that shape a place and thus its people.
Walter E Harris III
"These
are poems of vivid and compelling energy. Nature is a living presence
throughout these poems, which are spontaneous, alert, and rich in
transformations. Landscape is this poet's muse, be it her native Cumbria or
Long Island or the Mid West. Memory is also a rich seam for this poet." - Penelope Shuttle
Inside this volume are poems of great tenderness
and moment – urging us to bend a knee, like Walt Whitman, “to better understand
the blades of grass.” If fierceness and tenderness are two faces of the same
coin, then the poems in ‘The Other Side of the Bridge’ are works of rare
coinage. – George Wallace,
Writer-in-Residence Walt Whitman Birthplace
“These are poems brimming with deep generosity.
Although a faithful chronicler of Northern life, she holds out her arms to
people across the world. She is a listener, a storyteller, working carefully
with language to find the colours of reality. - Rose Flint
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