Bloomvale Home. Azilul de batrani Bloomvale - Joan Michelson

With their finely-calibrated tone of voice, Joan Michelson's new poems vividly document the practicalities, mundane details and inevitable fate of those who live in Bloomvale Home. At the same time, she moves us powerfully with her portraits of the resident’s confusions, heroism and still-vigorous emotions.  One of the residents bursts into song in a ‘language strange’. This highly original book makes essential – if often uncomfortable- reading for us all.    Martyn Crucifix, Poet

These poems got through to me because of how direct, sympathetic and unsentimental they are. (Diana Athill, Novelist)