Increments of the Everyday

Angela Costi reflects and Rose reads

How fantastic to get together to hear poetry and launch a book! Good ol’ Newport Mechanics Hall (now beautifully renovated)…. cuppa and chats …. Angela Costi guiding us through reflections on all Rose’s work, and Rose herself reading each wonderful poem.

“…the word ‘increment’ addresses three aspects of Rose’s poetry making. Firstly, the assured climb from book to book, secondly, the incremental value within the pages of the book itself – how Rose takes us on a journey from first page to last in all of her books, one that increases our understanding of what it means to observe. And thirdly, each poem itself a mountain made from sturdy steps, generously providing gratifying lookouts along the way with the final panorama, breathtaking.” Angela Costi

Increments of the Everyday is published by Puncher & Wattmann and available here

Read Angela Costi’s launch speech – forthcoming in Rochford Street Review