Circus as drama and risk, as exuberance and irrepressible spirit, is the central metaphor Patricia Sykes uses to open a world where public and private share the same tightrope. The poems speak of wome
In poems that are as concentrated as pearls, Patricia Sykes explores various histories?her own, those of her forebears, and the wider histories of identity and place. Citing the intersection of three
The Abbotsford Convent becomes more than the setting of this poetry collection; it emerges as presence, intimate and familiar as well as constraining and forbidding. But, it is childhood itself that b
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were not the first to engage in a head-of-state ideological partnership across the Atlantic, says Sykes (political science, American). She describes the relationshi
