In the title poem to Sicilian Elephants, his most wide-ranging and
ambitious collection to date, David Cooke imagines the short-lived
paradise achieved by those miniature elephants whose bones have
been found on the island. In poems gathered here he explores
notions of home and the way humans aspire to define their space and
achieve a life of ease. Starting out from familiar domestic
settings, he explores the rituals of DIY and gardening. However,
the inevitable tensions between us and our environment and the ways
that human achievement is subject to time are further explored in
new and startling situations as when in a poem about heaven, the
quest for a spiritual homeland is set against territorial conflict.
With Sicilian Elephants, in words from the Poetry Book Society
Bulletin: 'Cooke's lyrical insight and precision make the personal
universal.'
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