A Square of Sunlight by Meg Cox Jeremy Dixon and the Scholar gathers two

and the Scholar gathers two decades’ worth of Helen Vendler’s essays

the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review

Jenna Clake

and criticism

A Square of Sunlight by Meg Cox Jeremy Dixon and the Scholar gathers twoAlthough this collection often looks back it is never sentimental or clouded by a false rosy glow. Cox is fundamentally honest and pragmatic; we feel her wisdom in accepting what has been, in fact, of acknowledging her role in how things played out. The poet never seeks sympathy but invites us to laugh, consider, weigh up and move on. Whatever else there is in a life lived fast and furious, we may all be grateful for a square of sunlight and the juice