March 2004. 120 pp. ISBN-13 978-3-901993-17-6; ISBN-10 3-901993-17-7
£10.50 (+ 2.00 p&p), €11.00 (+ 2.00 p&p), US$ 13.00 (+ 3.00 p&p)

The Penny Bride has a [...] complex skein of themes and imagery, but continues to hold hersense of a European past, and the complexities of her own mixed inheritance: Greek immigrant grand-parents,Boston education, Eastern European understanding. In this new book these legacies have become the means bywhich she can develop a new theme: erotic love. In tender, pungent lyrics of great delicacy, sexual actsare called up into our own thoughts, rather than in explicit description on the page. Slow-paced and oftenliteral, she works with propositions, rather as in the Hebrew poetry of the Song of Solomon. [...]If Scott's subject matter is emotionally charged with Europe, her means are often American.Her techniques have developed since The Good Wife and now she is able to risk everything on thequiet music of her lines. She has a feeling for pause and hesitation which is drawn from American poetry.[...] All through the book, she has savoured the kind of love that produces"swarthy sons / not half the dinner bill." ("Call In the Pirates"). The Penny Bride is a true love song,not common in our contemporary culture, and finally, not so much a personalrecord as a tribute to passion itself.

"Georgia Scott's second book with Poetry Salzburg is immediately arresting. The crisp, unadorned black and white coverincludes a partially shadowed photograph of a lean woman's torso, naked except for black bikini underwear she appears to beremoving slowly. The image summons forth poems of eroticism, adultery, submission, and sensual pleasure. But to labelScott as mere love poet undermines her versatile poetic oeuvre. [...] Her first-person speakers celebrate sensuality,often in apostrophe to an absent lover - "Your love is food enough for me. / I don't need to dine on more." Scott isclever and mischievious, as when she imagines herself as a pinball machine played masterfully by a lover, and whenshe equates lovemaking with the writing process in "On the Desk." And when she juxtaposes the mystical and sexualin "Nazarenes", she poses the carnal as a spiritual wonder born of night. [...] Her gift is the ability to writeemotionally and artistically accessible poems as she moves through sex, masturbation, middle age, pregnancy, anorexia,deceased parents, and memory loss, amongst other topics. [...] a delightful book."