Invisible pulses

" lyrical and compelling, expansive and uplifting" Eileen Neil is a poet and an artist from the North of England. Her first collection, Invisible Pulses speaks to the invisible pulses in and around us all. There are poems of birth, life, love and hope. There are poems of loss. There are poems of the power of beauty and of nature. These poems transform the ordinary into something extraordinary. A stone held in a hand becomes a talisman. A walk on a beach which becomes an encounter with something else, something more. Eileen's poems speak to the pilgrim soul in all of us. "at the heart of Eileen Neils' poetry is her deep appreciation of the natural world. She concerns herself too with birth, rebirth and renewed hope, and skilfully interweaves mythology and landscape into her creations. Many poems are havens of beauty and refuge. 'Bedquilts' and 'Is It I?' are idylls any reader would gladly return to. Similarly the wild, stormy North has its allure. We experience this in the rousing poem 'After the Pandemic'. Neil's entire collection could be described as 'a palace of the imagination' (the title of her first poem) - it is lyrical and compelling, expansive and uplifting." Linda Marshall writer and poet (Brakken City, Half Moon Glasses and Cloud Cuckoo Café)