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'The final poem of this superb collection, ‘The Darkness’, identifies a primal scene. The young protagonist is a nascent poet, watching over the embers of a desert fire in early morning, awaiting the breath of a Pentecostal wind to rekindle the flames. It is a parable which emblematises the difficult task of transformation that is central to poetry itself: the boy contends with ‘fragments / that will not alchemise to song / that yield not / to the metaphrast’.' (Introduction)
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‘Chill Leaves the Words’ : A Masterly Collection by David Brooks
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- The Other Side of Daylight : New and Selected Poems 2024 selected work poetry
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