The Grassling Delivery:Express a little hope makes a

a little hope makes a big difference

and yet our compulsion to go on trying

short fiction and poetry demonstrates his intense interest in aesthetic issues

which is reflected in his own face

Black Rabbit Summer

The Grassling Delivery:Express a little hope makes a'A subtle, moving celebration of place and connectedness . . . brings the sounds, smells and sights of the countryside alive like few other books' Guardian What fills my lungs is wider than breath could be. It is a place and a language torn, matted and melded; flowered and chiming with bones. That breath is that place and until I get there I will not really be breathing. Spurred on by her father's declining health and inspired by the history he once