Touched Paperback / softback
by Ian Marriott
Paperback / softback
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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 outâ€.
The poems too seem to tremble on the water of their vision. — George Szirtes
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:32 pages
- Publisher:Cinnamon Press
- Publication Date:04/04/2022
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- ISBN:9781788641364
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:32 pages
- Publisher:Cinnamon Press
- Publication Date:04/04/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781788641364