The Autistic Alice by Joanne Limburg Nine Arches Press Penelope Shuttle and John Greening’s

Penelope Shuttle and John Greening’s Heath is a wild chorus of poems written in call and response across Hounslow Heath

"Beginning the Avocado" (1987)

‘A brilliantly virtuosic collection of deeply felt poems concerned with the personal impact of the dislocations and betrayals of history

more than a greatest hits retrospective

The book celebrates the separateness and connectedness of human experience in relationships and our capacity to harm and love

The Autistic Alice by Joanne Limburg Nine Arches Press Penelope Shuttle and John Greening’sThere are two acts of recovery in this book one of a lost brother, and another of a lost self. Joanne Limburg commemorates both in her third collection, The Autistic Alice. In its title sequence she uses Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass to explore her own experiences as a girl and young woman. Growing up with undiagnosed Aspergers, she often identified with Alice, a logical and curious child adrift in an arbitrary world. Collaging