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# Winter Pears
- URL: https://readerly-ghost.listofbooks.net/winter-pears/
- Published: 2026-09-30T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-12T10:13:28.000Z
- Description: Short, plain-spoken poems about a mother’s last winter. I read it in one sitting and then again, slowly, with a pencil.
- Author: Nora Vale
- Tags: Poetry, #by:Lotte Brenner, #rating:4.5, #pages:96, #read

Forty short poems about the last winter of the poet's mother: hospital corridors, a radio left on, pears ripening on a sill.

Brenner never reaches for a big image when a small one will do. I read it in one sitting, then again with a pencil.