Pictures of the Afterlife Jean Sprackland Neil Roberts on Plath and

Neil Roberts on Plath and Hughes

Born and raised in Portland

Brendan Behan and the highly successful Celtic Dawn

Tribute by Leila Aboulela

Pictures of the Afterlife Jean Sprackland Neil Roberts on Plath and"Jude Nutter's early work is measured and precise, elegiac in its sorrow and love for the natural world. It was no surprise when I found she had homesteaded on Wrangell Island in Alaska for ten years, working the land, watching birds, listening to snow, and writing poems. That quality of solitude, patience and a survivalist's strict attention to detail comes through in her work. Nutter's first collection, Pictures of the Afterlife, explores not only