a coastal town on the Monterey Bay
though never overdetermining cultural and political concerns
Bernard Noël
Jo Bell’s poems are lyrical and joyous
Literature expresses a country’s soul
Kith Jessi Jezewska Stevens a coastal town on theLove, sex, boats and friendship. And yet Jo Bells second poetry collection, Kith, is about so much more, as these bold and generous poems interweave bigger questions of place, identity and community and what these mean to us, here and now. Delighting in the belting, beautiful turn of phrase, Jo Bells poems are lyrical and joyous, but always precise and clear as birdsong. They take us the long way home, plot histories along the route of backwaters, and