Denise Levertov described Gillian Allnutt's poems as 'at once hard
and delicate, like wrought iron'. Both serious and light in touch,
humane and profound, this new collection explores the
manifestations of the Spirit, tracing it back through the familiar
world of Christianity to its roots in the shamanic. This journey
goes 'about and roundabout': living in past and present
simultaneously; seeking to marry masculine and feminine - in the
figure of Mary Magdalene, say, or those of the almost ghostly
mother and son in 'Steppe' or 'In Armenia'. The language of these
poems inhabits the state, the indwelling, of meditation - that nest
of thin air - berthing what, a moment ago, was neither here nor
there. indwelling is Gillian Allnutt's first new collection since
Wolflight (2007), included in her Bloodaxe retrospective How the
Bicycle Shone: New & Selected Poems.
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