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Title: Touched
Condition: New
Author: Ian Marriott
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781788641364
ISBN: 9781788641364
Publisher: Cinnamon Press
Genre: Poetry & Drama
Release Date: 04/04/2022
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
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Release Year: 2022

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