Books by Lynne Hjelmgaard

Lynne Hjelmgaard movingly recollects her life and loves: there are poems to her late husband as well as to her mentor and partner, the renowned Welsh poet Dannie Abse, who died in 2014. Other pieces transport us to New York, Denmark, The Caribbean, and London. Her lyrics are precise, warm in tone, and suffused with optimism for the future.

The Ring is a sequence of poems in which a new young widow, moves from the strangeness of city to city, (from Copenhagen to London to Rome to Paris) trying to come to terms with her loss while looking forward to a possible new life. The title poem concludes the volume where the widow suggestively lets go of some of her past by taking off her ring.