Lode by Gillian Allnutt So J. Lee Kathleen Carroll was born in

Kathleen Carroll was born in North Shields in 1960

even generations later

‘A Psalm for the Scaffolders’ is a hymn for her father’s profession

Sharp and sensitive in their imagery

Lode by Gillian Allnutt So J. Lee Kathleen Carroll was born inThe lode in Gillian Allnutts title picks up on two of the many meanings of the word. A lode can be a course, a way, a journey; also a road, a lane. Her collection traces a journey through time, the time of her own life and of our lives, since the Second World War. Lode also means guidance, here the guidance afforded by the continuity and relative stability economic, cultural, spiritual of Britains postwar years, the setting of the first part of the