This is Penelope Shuttle's first book of verse since Adventures with my Horse in 1988. The title poem, `Taxing the Rain', introduces a new, gently ironic, political note to a collection otherwise full of work more usually identifiable with this author: outspoken love poems; poems about children and animals in real life and dreams. Humour and passion are not always compatible, but here, Penelope Shuttle has achieved a unique mixture. This book is intended for readers of poetry, especially women readers. Sixth-formers, undergraduates.
- ISBN10 0192829939
- ISBN13 9780192829931
- Publish Date 1 September 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 August 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
- Imprint OxfordPoets
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 63
- Language English