The consoling cattle in Chris Preddle's second collection can be
seen from his kitchen window in Holme, West Yorkshire. These poems
are often grounded among local friends and the local moors, but
expand into a far larger cultural space that takes in Gilgamesh,
the Greeks, medieval monks, courtly love, music, modernism, the
golden ratio, compost bins, James Bond and Caterpillar
tractors.Their serious concern is a search for values; they
consider love, friendship, art, politics and the present, in the
face of uncertainty, unstable selfhood and mortality. Chris Preddle
puts rhythmic, unmetred lines into traditional forms, with
ingenious pararhyme. His words, and the poems they form, relate to
each other persistently with slants and angles of sound and
meaning. Above all, these poems are witty, erudite, sardonic,
grave, civilised and humane.
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