Published last National Poetry Month, as the pandemic was locking us down, Wooden Nutmegs offers wise reminders of the “world out there” as well as the worlds within us, in poems that have made for good companions during these dark, strange, existentially trying times. When Rowland’s poems affect me the most deeply, it’s often because of how they invite (force?) me to think about the myriad manifestations of time itself.
Liz Ahl is the author of Beating the Bounds (Hobblebush Books, 2017) and a member of the English Department faculty at Plymouth State University. Although she hails from many elsewheres, she has called New Hampshire home for twenty years, presently living in Holderness.
This post is part of our celebration of National Poetry Month 2021 for which I asked New Hampshire poets to recommend books of poetry by Granite State poets. These titles are generally available from local booksellers and may be held in public libraries as well.
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