1) What
the main or recurring themes in this collection? Were there words or ideas that
kept cropping up?
2) In
the title poem Grace what do you
think it is that the narrator is waiting for?
3) What
do you think the poet means by Grace? Does the title poem and the collection as
a whole fit with these ideas?
4) There
are several poems in the collection that are inspired by works of art – do these
work well as stand-alone poems? Did you feel the need to look at the artwork?
If so did this change or enhance your reading of the poem?
5) What
was your favourite/least favourite poem in the collection? Why?
6) Morgan
mainly writes in two and three line stanzas – did you feel that this spare form
suited the themes that she is writing about?
7) There
is a feeling of unexplored potential or of things not quite resolved in these
poems – how did this make you feel? Did you want more resolution? Or were you
happy to be left with a sense of unknowing?
8) This
collection has been described as being slightly bleak and religious in tone –
would you agree with this?
9) What
was your impression of the collection as a whole? How did it make you feel?
What do you remember most about it?
10) Have
you read any of Morgan’s other work? Would you seek it out having read Grace?
