It's probably a perfect first review for a debut collection: glowing and perceptive. Paula Green has reviewed The Rope Walk on her new NZ Poetry Shelf site, and you can read it here: http://nzpoetryshelf.com/2013/08/21/the-rope-walk-hand-stitched-with-perfect-seasoning/.
As well as all the positive things she says about Maria's poetry, there's also a lovely shoutout for Seraph Press: "The reason I sent my manuscript of The Baker’s Thumbprint to Seraph Press is because I have loved the way Helen Rickerby produces gorgeous poetry books from Vivienne Plumb’s The Cheese and Onion Sandwich and Other New Zealand Icons to Vana Manasiadis’s Ithaca Island Bay Leaves: A Mythistorima to Helen Lehndorf’s The Comforter." Thanks Paula!
As well as all the positive things she says about Maria's poetry, there's also a lovely shoutout for Seraph Press: "The reason I sent my manuscript of The Baker’s Thumbprint to Seraph Press is because I have loved the way Helen Rickerby produces gorgeous poetry books from Vivienne Plumb’s The Cheese and Onion Sandwich and Other New Zealand Icons to Vana Manasiadis’s Ithaca Island Bay Leaves: A Mythistorima to Helen Lehndorf’s The Comforter." Thanks Paula!
