Long Pass Paul Lester and Jennie is compelled by

and Jennie is compelled by circumstance to throw her lot in with his as they face an arduous journey across mountains to ultimately escape the strife-ridden Highlands

Prone poses

fields of vision

Three grandads in pinnies

Long Pass Paul Lester and Jennie is compelled by'Ach! I misspoke. What I mean to say is this ' In Long Pass, Joey Connolly's first collection, the poet in love, in puzzlement, in frustration or in elegy keeps catching himself out, starting again. He wants to speak truthfully. He wants to say things simply. But nothing is as simple as it seems at first. Nothing strikes the interlocutor quite as he intends. Ach! He goes back. Deflections, tangents: the long pass, the long unfolding sentence, the