‘These poems display subtle craft and pay homage to the gift of life. They’re tough and honest at times (try “Free-Thinker”) and wryly self-alert to contradictions in the way we accept cruelty (“Mites”). They debunk “mystic Eastern stuff” at the same time as they celebrate its inherent value and appeal. Wrigley’s care for giving others their due is evident in such poems as “Ward Orderly”, on the care and protection of fellow beings. Universally understood griefs, angers, and joys inhabit individual poems that take readers...