The Station Before

ISBN-13: 9781789621679 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 64 str.

Linda Anderson

Opis

This first collection travels across time and space employing a range of voices, including historical ones. However, it is always the moment of encounter that is important, the moment when things appear strange, before they settle into a pattern or become known. This is as true of the explorer Charles Kingsley, awed by the Caribbean landscape, as it is of the poet herself, confronted with moments of vision or almost vision. Nothing is quite secure in this collection: memory destabilizes with its resurrections; seeing has many angles and cannot be taken for granted; borders fluctuate and crossings abound. Though not afraid to draw on ideas from many sources, these poems often explore how thinking masks a fragility, the knowledge of our mortal selves. What are the fragments that make a poem? How are they held within a form? And how so we negotiate the multiple memories, ideas, sights, meetings, and losses which constitute us.