As you read this moving and sometimes disturbing collection of poems you will encounter thoughts, fears and moments of humour and kindness that encroach on the mind uncalled for and at random. Amber Hawkswood shows, sharply, that we do not fully control our thinking.

We are shown universality - Mother Tongue

See things through the mind of a child - Squirrel Circus

and the loving concern of a mother - Ladybird

We encounter moments of lightness - Double Entrendre

Experience life and death coming full circle - Danny Boy

and there can be few more accurate depictions of that final moment - In Awakening

There is another more defiant side to Untameable Shadows, which reads like a hymn to strong women - Untameable Still 

Be amused and expect to be stirred, if not slight shaken by this anthology.

Available on Amazon:

Untameable Shadows: Amazon.co.uk: Hawkswood, Amber: 9798853261716: Books