"We were suspended in a world that echoed ... " - Leslie Howard

I was touched recently to receive the words below from one of the audience members who attended the poetry reading in Barrydale on 16th May this year, where John van Wyngaard read for Norman, and we tracked through the entire set of love books with a total of 28 poems -

"I was one of the fortunate members of the Barrydale poetry group to attend Silke's reading of love poems by herself and Norman Morrissey. John van Wyngaard read the male voice.

It was early winter's evening, and we were gathered in the van Wyngaard home - warm and inviting, exactly the right setting for the reading of these moving poems. I was so struck, not only by Silke's telling use of words and cadence, but also by the quality of her delivery of words. Each word was like a  pebble dropped into a pond, where it reverberated in ripples of meaning and pleasure. The room was absolutely still, apart from the two voices, and for an hour or so we were suspended in a world that echoed with the beauty of the minds of two spirited poets. It was a privilege indeed." - Leslie Howard, author of Under the Moon poetry collection