Carole Satyamurti's poetry explores love, attachment and the
fragility of personal survival, charting the tension between
connected and separate lives. With an unflinching eye, she takes on
complex and often painful subject-matter - cancer for instance or
raising a disabled child. Many of her poems hinge on a
turning-point or a place where one life touches another, bearing
witness to the way we imagine - or fail to imagine - the otherness
of others. Stitching the Dark draws on four previous books and
includes a whole new collection, her strongest and most formally
adventurous. In these new poems, there is a deeper engagement with
the universal predicament of how to live in the face of mortality -
of what it means to exist, and to cease existing. The title
suggests that the act of writing - the search for the right words -
is an attempt to repair, illuminate, and give form to what is
unknown, fearful, perplexing. But the collection is by no means
solemn. There is also wit and celebration, dark humour and a fine
sense of the absurd, as well as poems challenging our responses to
events that do not affect us directly. She also published a later
collection, Countdown (2011).
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