Touched (9781788641364)
Paperback 34 pages English Dec 02, 2021
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In the initial sequence of this pamphlet, and following short lyrics, the writer explores the experience of living with long-term, and severe mental states. There is no safe haven of medical 'pathology' here, but an urgent rite of passage for the damaged and conflicted soul. A form of modern Purgatory-escaping the grasping jaws of Inferno, to find itself stumbling towards a rarefied, yet earthy, Paradiso.Ian Marriott's marvellous poems inhabit rather than observe nature - in fact they do both - but are as much concerned with the human condition. They work in the area of what Hopkins called instress. The voice is calm, contained and precise, as when he watches a Pond Skater, "So perilous / this thin meniscus - / six legs spread out". The poems too seem to tremble on the water of their vision.- George Szirtes
- Author:
- Ian Marriott
- Publisher:
- Cinnamon Press
- Publication Date:
- Dec 02, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 34 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1788641361
- ISBN-13:
- 9781788641364