The Tidal Wife

Kaddy Benyons second collection, The Tidal Wife, is concerned with islands: both as physical landforms and as emotional states; the need to retreat and be cut off as much as the need to reconnect and come to trust the pulse of ones internal tide. The poems address the day-to-day realities of being wife, mother, daughter, poet while drawing on natures rage and beauty to describe the shifting states of I.