Asleep in the Teapot

'In his introduction to 180 more, an anthology of which he was editor, Billy Collins spoke of a preference for poetry in which ‘a human voice is clearly sounded – poems with the front door left open’. Judy Dally writes poetry in which the door is flung wide and the welcome mat is out. Wander inside and you feel as though you’ve come home – to the minutiae of our ‘little lives’ made suddenly important and tender and funny by Judy’s clear-eyed and compassionate poetry. And don’t be fooled by the se