Let Out the Djinn

There is a double meaning in the title to this debut collection from Jane Aldous –

Jinn was her family nickname, and writing poetry feels like letting out her wild, mischievous spirit.

For Jane, poetry is all about listening, and she invites us to listen to the imagined worlds of hunter-gatherers, star-gazers, mythical beings, wild creatures, the living and the dead, and the real world of a gay woman growing up in the 70s.