The poems gathered here were composed by Donald Davie for his wife
Doreen, to whom he was married and devoted for fifty years. The
earliest of them were copied out by hand and presented to Doreen as
a tribute on the occasion of her 54th birthday, and this agarlanda
was then added to over the years. Of the 43 poems, ten are
published here for the first time, two others in new versions. They
span the five decades of the coupleas marriage, and because of this
portray an enduring but complex relationship as it changes over
time.
To some readers the poems will seem unusual as love poems because
they do not idealize love and marriage. Their strength lies in
their honesty and intimacy and in the openness to the pain and
self-understanding that both ardor and conflict (aWe, we throve on
frictiona) can produce. This is a relationship in which each knows
the other too well to be assuaged by a sentimental lyricism.
For this special edition, twelve of Doreenas photographs from their
travels together have been included, so that her sensibility may be
present, too, as an artist in her own right. Donaldas handwritten
poems are reproduced both in facsimile and in type.
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