Brontë Journey — Liliana A. Pasterska
ISBN: 9781788641968
£7.99
Liliana A. Pasterska is the maven of finding emotional depth in the detail of the everyday. In Brontë, Journeys we are invited to walk alongside a love story, one that is sundered by loss, yet shines all the more brightly for that.
The language is clear and precise. The places resonate with the beauty and grief that unfold in the personal story of Charlotte Brontë and Arthur Bell Nichols at the heart of the collection. The voices of her subjects carry across time, not an act of ventriloquism, but of empathy and immersion. And if for Arthur, grieving as he leaves Yorkshire six years after Charlotte’s early and sudden death, “Roadside fuchsia will greet him / as if nothing had passed.”, the clue is in the ‘as if’. For so much has passed and this exquisite collection has allowed us in, invited us to share a moment with creatures whose lives still touch us.
An elegant, heart-stopping collection.
Author biography
Liliana A. Pasterska was born in Poland and educated there as a paediatrician and psychiatrist. She worked in UK as a consultant psychiatrist for many years and became interested in the female condition, particularly in relation to the pioneering women writers of XIX century. Some of her poems have been published in the Journal of the Gaskell Society and in the anthologies of Manchester Stanza and Womanswrite groups. Her debut pamphlet with Cinnamon Press was The Third Sister Speaks, followed by Shadowmouth: Vitalie and Arthur Rimbaud—scenes from life and Living the Loss. She is married with two adult children and three grandchildren and lives in London.