There isn’t a wasted word among these fine, precise and touching poems. Wisty Thomas is at home in both formal and free verse and the whole of a life is tactfully rendered here in all its pain and beauty.
Martina Evans
IN CHIMBORAZO'S SHADOW
In Chimborazo's Shadow is the first collection of poetry by Wisty Thomas. It features poems of childhood, wilderness, travel, and longing. The poems exist in a changing landscape of delight and sorrow, loss and joy. Travel with the author from the mountains of South America to a remembered moment in a London street via the intimacies of a 1950's childhood.
Wisty Thomas is a versatile and accomplished poet. Whether she is remembering a grim postwar Britain, or inside a bus poised precariously on a mountain road in the Andes, or standing by a premature baby who is hanging on to life, she is always worth hearing. I warmly recommend this first collection.
Merryn Williams