Circling the Core

Myra Schneider’s new collection opens with a sequence inspired by one of Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures and explores the idea of core from different angles. This theme recurs throughout as Schneider tries to capture the sense of what a bird is, searches out what lies at the heart of memories, fraught contemporary situations, ancient places and dream visions. The same need to investigate underlies poems about women’s experience. These include a narrative, ‘Hotel’, and a monologue, ‘Eurydice’s Version’, which reinterpets the Orpheus myth.