Love Leans Over The Table

Two Rivers Press, 2023

Passionate and affirming poems which celebrate both human and divine love. They trace a path from personal loss to spiritual struggle and eventual epiphany, finding echoes in the vividly imagined experience of various mystics such as Julian of Norwich, John Donne, Meher Baba, Margery Kempe, Simone Weil.

‘The depth of Jackson’s painstaking research, her eyes-wide-open image making, her facility with other vocabularies, her allusions to other texts, and her fellow feeling for the mystic tradition make this collection a rare and magnificent thing.’ KATHRYN BEVIS Poetry Wales 

‘This collection of passionate, life-affirming poems goes straight to my favourites shelf.. every poem is a pure belter from an accomplished and engaging voice.’ ANN GRANT Writing in Education, 2023.   

‘a probing, adventurous collection, each poem pushing towards the unsayable, finding its song.’ ROBERT HAMBERGER

‘In these honest, eloquent, compelling poems, Rosie Jackson enters all the realms – physical, emotional, mental and particularly the spiritual – as the collection unfolds. Her evocations of the lives of the mystics are a rare pleasure. Love Leans over the Table confirms Jackson as a searching, accomplished and necessary contemporary voice.’  MONIZA ALVI