Little Thistles: Winner of the 2023 New Women's Voices Series - Hardcoverby Stacey Forbes (Author) It took less than three lines for this poem to completely get its hooks into me. It has the logic of a dream and the keenness of "a pearl handled knife." The voice is elusive, evasive, and irresistible. Nicky Beer, on the poem "Dream, with mother of pearl" Stacey R. Forbes's Little Thistles is like the body she so often writes about: lean but nourishing, grieving but musical, spare but verdant, distant but familiar. And