Musing on a vast sky, studded with bright stars or a cloudless, blue expanse of summer sky is a sure-fired inspiration for poetry. In The Vastness of the Sky, Sheila Schofield Large shows just how much influence the sky has. From the mystery of the seal-woman leaving behind the grey silk of dusk, to the wonder of the planets in winter and the wistful sense of loss, felt twice near Chartres cathedral, this second collection takes us on a poetic sky-ride through life, loss and love. The author introduces her book with Yeats's time-honored Aedh Asks for the Cloths of Heaven, hinting at the...