Resisting Probability

by Colin James

Poetry. The uncanny obstinacy of Colin James' poems in RESISTING PROBABILITY lingers like an elusive aftertaste, a sense of raw, stunted assertion and material finality both incomplete and unchangeable. This is we feel how things are, as we settle into the Jamesian whimsical, laconic, gnomic, with a strange resilience of their own no matter how gnarled in form. What feels most solid, though, may not be things themselves, or what is said, but the unsettling edge of silence around them, with a hint of something a little dangerous, but funny too. We learn to take it like it "When these are moved / to the center of the room / things don't improve."

72 pages, Paperback

Published October 15, 2017

About the author

Colin James worked as a political journalist in Wellington for half a century from 1969, which included tracking the development and evolution of the Closer Economic Relations agreement. He participated in the Australia New Zealand Leadership Forum from its inception in 2004 until 2019. He has published eight books.