Entrainment: Poems

by Ewan Whyte

This collection of poetry explores interrelatedness, the intellectual and the ubiquitous with lyrical vision. There are wonderful moments in every poem, expressions of morphogenesis, as explored through the visions of homeless people as visiting preachers, the person as uncomfortable traveller, the various voices that speak to us through history and myth, hallucinating street people singing to vegetables, a plane crash at an air show, and a recounting of the end of the medieval Cathar and Albigensian crusades. These are just a few of the topics the author encounters with remarkable wit and ingenuity.

64 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2015

Reviews

[Molly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ewan Whyte’s poems are literally transporting. They take us to universes of love and tolerance by way of stations we might easily label Understanding and Further Understanding. They begin in the quotidian world with bicycles and night buses, ice cream trucks and hand-me-down suitcases, but through their craft they end in a lapidary world. Each poem is like an opal, opaque at heart, as dilemmas often are, but emitting glints of the sheer colors of humor and grace. Whyte’s very contemporary poems in Entrainment are framed by his sense-filled translations of Catullus. A reader couldn’t ask for more.