Touched by Alan Buckley Michele Hutchison perfect red trainers - and

perfect red trainers - and the things that lurk in the library

to denounce the prophetess and warn the Ninevite city of its coming doom

these extraordinary poems may unsettle and disturb

the poet and the poem - in a vibrant celebration of life

Touched by Alan Buckley Michele Hutchison perfect red trainers - andSome kinds of human damage are invisible and Not suffering in silence goes against the grain, as Alan Buckley says in Script. But the poems in Touched, his first full collection, do speak out. With delicacy and precision, they explore how it is to live with the psychological impact of trauma. In this landscape of risk, where the prospect of healing means everything, trust is perilous. As for lovewell, love is no less than terrifying. But not