Accomplished poet, Helen Patrice, casts a thought-provoking metaphor in her new anthology of poetry, Palaelontology for Beginners. Helen exhumes her ghosts and her grief through perceptive and quirky observations expressed in poems that are stark, honest and powerful. She explores the bones and fossils of a woman who has journeyed through the loss of self, womanhood, and personal power. Her poems cover a wide range of topics and emotions: fantastical science fiction, motherhood, functional and dysfunctional romance- warmth to biting, sarcastic hilarity to pure poignancy. She crafts them all with beautiful, emotive, accessible language, and profound, stunning realism.