Celebrating & Sharing Poems as Friends
On the Brink of Touch by Fiona Bennett
We are honoured to introduce to you Fiona Bennett’s poetry collection: On the Brink of Touch, now available from Live Canon.
We are so pleased that Fiona's beautiful collection is now available for you to read in your lives and hold in your hands. We only wish she could have been here to see it and celebrate with us all.
Fiona worked diligently towards her collection over many years and completed the manuscript earlier this year. Whilst it is desperately sad that she did not get to see the book in its published form, she did know that Live Canon had taken up the collection, and that it would be with us all this year. She even sent some final notes on the book from hospital.
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On the Brink of Touch is absolutely exquisite, with all of Fiona’s deftness of touch and profound human understanding shining through.
Enormous thanks are due to Fiona’s two exceptional poetry mentors: Tamar Yoseloff and Glyn Maxwell, for all their work with Fiona towards the collection, and to Helen Eastman at Live Canon, for publishing Fiona's poetry so quickly and with such care.​
“Fiona Bennett's poems are often about gesture, particularly small gestures between people, barely registered, but vital in how we communicate with each other. Although she could write about difficulty and hardship with a clear and focused eye, her poems on the whole celebrate being in the world - recording the joy of seeing something extraordinary and beautiful, the power of touch and speech and dance. In that sense, her poems are extensions of her way of being, her gentle presence, her humanity; although her absence is keenly felt, it is a consolation to know that her voice will continue to radiate through this stunning collection.”
- Tamar Yoseloff
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“Fiona Bennett wrote a poetry of incandescence. The blaze of the poems is so fierce it obliterates the past tense, shines on a realm of moments brilliantly caught, the trembling light of first glimpses, last touches, those times where human relations turn and the price of love is infinitely paid. This book is her memorial, but not a stone – a flame, light made from heat, the tense of what is now, the tense of what is always.”
- Glyn Maxwell
We invite you all to discover On the Brink of Touch for yourselves, and to find great beauty, comfort and connection in Fiona’s endless gifts of poetry.