Shake the Kaleidoscope by G W Colkitto Southword Editions 'The book is delightful

'The book is delightful

not only to arrange words scintillatingly

and run parallel to his highly praised volumes of memoirs

It is a book that captures many different versions of who the poet is now and who she has been formerly

Shake the Kaleidoscope by G W Colkitto Southword Editions 'The book is delightfulMemory, time, love and loss weave through all of G W Colkitto's poems with a resonance that moves us fluidly from yearning to insight. The master of seeing connections, Shake the Kaleidoscope finds Colkitto taking a view across the whole of life: non linear, sometimes fragmentary, imbued with whimsy and humour, but above all permeable to the scars and triumphs of loss and love. As the poems range back and forth across the years, one memory provoking