Shaking the Apple Tree
In poems ranging from the molten to the lyrical, Jane Simpson takes the reader on an unusual journey, from the death of a major perpetrator in the Anglican Church to love poems to all women who have been sexually abused.
Jane Simpson’s poetry speaks with compassion, honesty and sensitivity on the abuse crisis in faith institutions. This is a powerful and thought-provoking collection. Readers are likely to go back to reading these poems again and again.
– Prof. David Tombs, Centre for Theology and Public Issues, University of Otago.
I have burned with anger reading Shaking the Apple Tree. These poems should cause a bonfire in our hearts and minds, for this is the Church’s new story.
– The Rev. Louise Deans
In poems ranging from the molten to the lyrical, Jane Simpson takes the reader on an unusual journey, from the death of a major perpetrator in the Anglican Church to love poems to all women who have been sexually abused.
Jane Simpson’s poetry speaks with compassion, honesty and sensitivity on the abuse crisis in faith institutions. This is a powerful and thought-provoking collection. Readers are likely to go back to reading these poems again and again.
– Prof. David Tombs, Centre for Theology and Public Issues, University of Otago.
I have burned with anger reading Shaking the Apple Tree. These poems should cause a bonfire in our hearts and minds, for this is the Church’s new story.
– The Rev. Louise Deans
In poems ranging from the molten to the lyrical, Jane Simpson takes the reader on an unusual journey, from the death of a major perpetrator in the Anglican Church to love poems to all women who have been sexually abused.
Jane Simpson’s poetry speaks with compassion, honesty and sensitivity on the abuse crisis in faith institutions. This is a powerful and thought-provoking collection. Readers are likely to go back to reading these poems again and again.
– Prof. David Tombs, Centre for Theology and Public Issues, University of Otago.
I have burned with anger reading Shaking the Apple Tree. These poems should cause a bonfire in our hearts and minds, for this is the Church’s new story.
– The Rev. Louise Deans