Unexpected Clearing: Poems

Rhythm and pattern follow with precision the rich tonality of Lucas’s visual and aural perceptions, delivered with just enough tension to allow a line to run free or a word to drop and hang alone where it dances, or stops. - Amanda Joy, Cordite Lucas’s collection shines with a clear intelligence and keen observation of the everyday, landscape, place, art, love and grief. The poems, evocative and moving, also sit so lightly on the page. - Lucy Dougan, Philip Mead and Marcella Polain, Mary Gilmore Award Judges 2014 Lucas’s poems are composed of vivid bursts of colour. - Cassandra Atherton, ABR