In the Shadow of the Yew by John Barnie Moya Cannon for de Borja

for de Borja

– ‘List of Things Beyond My Bedroom Curtains’

and the paintings of Renoir can also be detected under the surface of Alain-Fournier’s verse

In this sense his work both positions the North-East as a major literary territory

the loss of friends

In the Shadow of the Yew by John Barnie Moya Cannon for de BorjaIn a tight sequence of 33 poems, In the Shadow of the Yew, John Barnie leads us through the cemetery of hopes (Conrad). A layered monologue in a distinctive voice that is incisive and deeply questioning, Barnie asks whether the suffering of humanity and the suffering we inflict renders our species a curse. better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun. says the writer of Ecclesiastes, and