Description
A Second Whisper by Lynne Hjelmgaard is a thoughtful and sensitive collection of poems that reflect the changing identities of a woman: in motherhood, in widowhood, in friendship and grief. There are elegies to the loss of her mentor and partner, the poet Dannie Abse in 2014 which are a tribute to their deep friendship. There are also poems to her late husband who died in 2006 and for their children and for relationships from the author’s past in New York City and Denmark. The poems are both elegiac and celebratory, they move and change tone as the author travels to the past and negotiates through the geography of grief and feelings of displacement in London and finally, opens to her new life in the present.
Loss of the Magyar and Other Poems 
Gold from the Stone 
Steep Tea 
Swansea Automatic 
Mexico City Blues 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
The Tamarit Poems 
Book of Mercy 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
My Family and Other Superheroes