"a poet of both truth and beauty"
The TLS
from The Lantern Cage
On the Koi-ness of Time
Since it has come,
this moment,
finning to the surface
of a mooned lake,
we are responsible to it
and to every puzzled scale
in its lucent being.
Only through the weave
of its complicated skin
can we rise
to the balance
of our own breathing.
Since it has come,
this synchronicity of light
and air, we must
bend to it,
before the wrist twitches
and the line snaps.
The poems in my third collection share a fascination with the mysteries that underlie our everyday existence – that "other world" we sense in the "undeciphered sands" shifting at our feet. By turns lyrical and philosophical, elegiac and playful, The Lantern Cage is a book located on the margins of vision, where the invisible calculations of being remain unsolvable – a realm whose secrets are kept "under lough and quay".