Little Anchors by Lorraine Mariner Julia Copus He maps a rich territory

He maps a rich territory of rivers

The reader marvels at how Morton's poems fold

but as a reverberating record and as the culmination of time's manifold potential to mend

these poems are more relevant than ever

What remains and what is created anew

Little Anchors by Lorraine Mariner Julia Copus He maps a rich territoryLorraine Mariner's slant humour and eye for the peculiarities of human interactions have won her comparisons to Stevie Smith, that distinctly English poetic sensibility. In Little Anchors, her third collection, Mariner looks below the surface of the 'quintessential English family', discovering hidden heritages and family secrets and a new understanding of what it means to belong. She uncovers the Greek heritage that her late father had carefully