If the starting point for a number of poems in Ian Duhig's richly
varied new collection is Sterne's Tristram Shandy, its presiding
genius is the great eighteenth-century civil engineer, fiddler and
polymath Blind Jack Metcalf - whose life Duhig here celebrates, and
from whose example he draws great inspiration. Writing with an
almost Burnsian eclecticism, Duhig explores urban poverty,
determinism, social justice and the consolations of poetry and
music on a journey that takes in everything from a riotous
reimagining of Don Juan to the tragedy of Manuel Bravo (the Leeds
asylum seeker from Angola who was forced to defend himself in
court, and later took his own life). No poet today writes with such
a sense of political and social conscience, and The Blind Roadmaker
affirms Duhig's belief in poetry as a means of commemorating those
who least deserve to be forgotten.
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