Holding onto the Horizon

What do we hold on to in uncertain times? A storykeeper, the poet Pip Sheehan counts heartbeats as she traverses from young hippy to crone elder during a cultural era of profound progressions. HOLDING ON TO THE HORIZON is a poetry of witness to the main currents in the poet's life bookended by the social convulsions of the 1960s and the 2020s. Arranged in three sections, the collection connects the diversity yet similarity of our stories, historical tipping points during this timeline, and a listening for deeper resonances. The title poem HOLDING ON TO THE HORIZON is essentially about the confluence of the natural with the spiritual and “about how we steady ourselves in times of uncertainty” (Frances Loudon).