The long black coat

By Diane Greenberg

Deeply personal poems evoking universal themes through a life centred in Jerusalem and reaching out to embrace other cultures, English countryside, a childhood in Wales and roots in Eastern Europe.This is a collection of poems written over thirty years, gathered into sections, each of which follows an arc through related subject matter, focussed sometimes on journey or place - India, Oxford - and sometimes on mood.The long black coat of the title was borrowed from an elegant friend to enhance a return trip to Paris, where Greenberg gravitated to the beloved Shakespeare and Company bookshop, setting for a poem reflecting on visits to Paris at different stages in her life.The poet examines ubiquitous issues, amplified by her move with young children to a country of political tensions and existential dangers, distilled here in close observation, and in the retelling of events and encounters with family, friends, strangers and new-found distant cousins, survivors of the Holocaust.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1739737504
• ISBN13: 9781739737504
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Belliers Books
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"