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Constellations
Enigmatic and spare, these poems meditate upon sex, love, parenthood, the energy of dreams, and the power of memory. Utilizing a variety of voices and styles, this compilation explores dark and universal themes and plays with both form and formlessness while remaining beautifully taut and distilled. As it transitions from day time to the “perpetual night,” it proves itself to be a life-affirming journey through human experience.
- GenresPoetry
80 pages, Paperback
Published June 1, 2012
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July 7, 2012
This is a sequence of poems about life, the universe and everything: beautiful, haunting and otherworldly, they take you somewhere else and bring you back to earth feeling that your perspective on your world has been subtly refocused. Moving from glimpses of the personal and domestic - a woman painting watercolours on a beach, the sun on a bowl on a table in a house - to war, disaster and the end of time, it's a collection that fans of T S Eliot, W H Auden and Louis MacNeice will come to love. Philosophical poetry for our times, composed with an ear for the subtleties of music and a painterly eye. (I'm Ian Pindar's other half, by the way - but I really do think his poetry is brilliant.)
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