The M Pages by Colette Bryce Edmund Blunden Helen Thomas was widowed when

Helen Thomas was widowed when her husband

”’ – Stephen Burt

" wrote Brecht

and the erotic provocations of D

lit up by a sense of personal address

The M Pages by Colette Bryce Edmund Blunden Helen Thomas was widowed whenThe reader might be justified in thinking that the M in the title of Colette Bryce's new poetry collection could stand for Mortality, Mother, Mourning, or the spontaneous and cathartic practice of the writers morning pages until they reach the books arresting central sequence. Addressed to M, a sibling who has suddenly died, this three part poem depicts the experience of unexpected bereavement, and the altering effect such events have on the living.