Flickerings is not just an unusual and multi-faceted collection of
the author's poetry. While he uses the poetry form to tackle often
disturbing themes, such as the search for the meaning of life,
death among family and friends and even large social issues such as
consumerism and the environment, he does so with delicacy, wry
humour and, through, a love of the musicality of the 'language' of
poetry. Nor is this anthology of his works by theme a mere
collection of different thematic topics, poetic forms and
structures, but it offers a discussion of the medium of poetry
itself. Yates has an extensive background in the communications
field and has written for print and broadcasting, as well as
teaching Communications and writing. In an introduction to the
collection, he attempts to define the medium of poetry, both as an
art form and as a medium of communication. As he puts it, not every
writer can write deathless and beautiful prose..."so, sometimes,
especially in moments of personal indulgence, some of us write
poetry instead. For, in poetry, there are no holds barred. Mystery
is the staple of the medium and music is the staff on which it is
most often written...there is hardly any point in resorting to the
poetic form if the result just looks and sounds like a shipwrecked
fragment from a novel. What the poem can-and too rarely does- is to
convey a subject or experience more lyrically, perhaps less
explicitly and, ideally, in a nutshell. The poem should also have
the potential to produce resonances or recognitions in the reader
about similar ideas or experiences...and, failing such recognition,
the reader can at least enjoy the mystery and the music..." And he
concludes, "...prose is most often concerned with the denotative
and explicit, while poetry relies more on the connotative and
implicit...delving into the inner dimension...the more private and
mysterious one of the senses themselves-of the 'mindscape,' if you
wish." This, the author illustrates with his anthology and,
especially, with the poem "Flickerings," from which the book takes
its title.
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