Unintended Consequences

“Lily Brett’s fourth volume of poems represents an important, self-contained development of the themes in her earlier books. Against the historical background of the Holocaust we see her emerging into the open air of the present, more skilled and sure-footed than ever, with a new wit and humor sometimes playing at the corners of her mouth. Brett’s new poems explore the intrigues of personality, here, triumphant, there, barbed or mysterious.

“Unintended Consequences invites the reader to experience the return of hope, without evasions or shortcuts, as Brett has observed it over three generations.”
Robert Harris