Ian Pople is a man of the world. He has travelled and taught in the
UK, Greece, Sudan and Saudi Arabia. His poems explore England, the
larger world, and how changing perspectives readjust the sense of
England and of home. They deal with borders, crossings, closing
boundaries. They are about transitions in space and time, the ways
life and relationships change and adapt to illness, love,
estrangement and loss. The traveller changes identities as he
moves, responding to different surroundings, and the early poems
collected here provide a varied retrospect, moving through Africa,
Europe and Asia - so that we read the more recent work from a
different perspective. The travel poems explore the range of
reactions, appropriations and misappropriations as physical and
psychological boundaries are crossed. More recent writing responds
to music and the visual arts, using assemblages or bricolage to
convey the painfully familiar experience of displacement,
dislocation. There are poems that answer back to figures from jazz
history, Roland Kirk, Dupree Bolton and Pat Metheny among them. It
is wonderful to encounter such an accomplished and varied body of
work which shares with us its vivid spaces and tones. Pople, a
lucid critic of modern and contemporary - especially American -
poetry, is an original artist in his own right.
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