In Mortal Memory

by Andrew McNeillie

In Mortal Memory is a collection of lyric poems, celebratory if often melancholy, both elegiac and ironic. Affirming that life is OCyall becomingOCO McNeillie mourns what that means in terms of loss and sorrow at time passing. The sea is a powerful presence, its meaning drawn both from the northern landscapes in which McNeillieOCOs work is rooted, and from the work of French poets, from Baudelaire and Hugo to Rimbaud and Corbi re. The poems pitch up and down across formalities, against the idea of purity, while sustaining a rhyming, singing line. "

72 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 1, 2010

Reviews

[John Eliot · Rating 4 out of 5]

As I'm the first to review this, an excellent example of how very good poetry is ignored. What is it that puts the average person off poetry? I suspect our education system is to blame where poetry appears to be something elist. Here in this collection there are very emotional pieces, short stories within themselves. This collection deserves a wider audience.
.John Eliot (author of the collection Ssh)