Window on the Square
RV Bailey looks at Alice Beer's 'private perspective of a public place'
Window on the Square by Alice Beer. Soundswrite Press. ISBN 978 0 9550786 3 7. £3. Alice Beer is a one-off. She is not like any other poet I can think of: she has a totally individual voice, a voice of simple, unassuming, unselfconscious Quaker authority. She writes about the square where she lives, whose moods and modes and seasons she can observe through her window; and she writes also about some of her own experiences ‘In Sheltered Accommodation’, and she looks, with a gaze as clear as window glass, on the lessons of living alone and of confronting her future.
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