What to Do Next is the fourth full collection of Sue Dymoke’s poems which Shoestring Press has published. The cruel circumstances of her death from breast cancer has also determined that it should be the last. He first, The New Girls: New & Selected Poems (2004), was followed by Moon at the Park and Ride (2012), and then, in 2018, What They Left Behind. All of these collections are remarkable for the vivacity of their observation, and all of them gleam with the wit, by turn wry, caustic, magnanimous, which is characteristic of a Dymoke poem. She delights, indeed rejoices in quirks of human speech, in the unforeseeable movements of birds and of their songs, in the shapes and colours of native and exotic flora, in any gesture of individuality, and like all good poets she is drawn to whatever redeems ordinariness, gives it its edge, its undeniable, particular presence.
