coloured by the changing seasons, and may respond to the church calendar, as here. All Souls' Day, from her Selected Poems, weaves together imaginary and remembered conversation in a hushed, precisely-realised late-autumn setting. The sky is colourless, the "day draws no breath". Such an atmosphere has an intense, mystical quality for Bellerby. And yet, although a Christian poet, she treats religious experience unconventionally, and seems to have an intuitive grasp of space-time, and the possibility of other dimensions, in those wishful lines: "what the small day cannot hold/must spill into eternity."from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Poem of the week: All Souls' Day by Frances Bellerby
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