Marriott Ian - Touched - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 out". The poems too seem to tremble on the water of their vision. - George Szirtes
Title: Touched
Author(s): Marriott Ian
Publisher: Cinnamon Press
Barcode: 9781788641364
Pages: 32 Pages
Publication Date: 4/4/2022
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets