"Behind the Cane" is an innovative
and adventurous book, bringing together a rich variety of poems in
diverse forms, joined with striking and appropriate examples of original
visual art....Here these gifted artists show us how the joy of art
can transcend our multiple sorrows and disabilities and how the beauty
of nature, the Creation, restores the wounded spirit. "Behind the
Cane" is a good and worthwhile book."
George Garrett
2002 Virginia Poet Laureate / Author
" Behind every successful poetry collection is a poet who uses his/her
gift with words to touch readers. Sorcha Duncan is one such poet".
" In Battle Lines, the poem reads like a dream, surreal in its depiction.....Like
the British Romantic poet William Blake's Songs of Innocence
and Experience, Duncan combines a simple, lyrical rhyme scheme with
simple words to create a poem that expresses life's complexity. The
poem is not only about life and death, but also about the struggle
between the power of death and the determination of life."
"Her contribution to the Muscular Dystrophy Association by
the bearing of her soul in this collection of personal poems is further
proof of her willingness to help others understand and find hope
in life, no matter what it takes."
Review by Josephine Chan
"Sorcha
Duncan's voice in Behind the Cane is an indomitable spirit......From
her unique form in Psychology to her haunting retelling of a dream
in Battle Lines, Duncan's poems are as organic as nature .... Behind
the Cane is a striking poem that is the core of Duncan's message to
her readers--that behind the cane of disability lives a zestful spirit..."
V Magazine for Women
