John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the
past 35 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn
all our expectations. In this new symphonic collection, Travel
Light Travel Dark, Agard casts his unique spin on the intermingling
strands of British history, and leads us into metaphysical and
political waters. Cross-cultural connections are played out in a
variety of voices and cadences. Prospero and Caliban have a cricket
match encounter, recounted in calypso-inspired rhythms, and in the
long poem, Water Music of a Different Kind, the incantatory
orchestration of the Atlantic's middle passage becomes a moving
counterpoint to Handel's Water Music. Travel Light Travel Dark
brings a mythic dimension to the contemporary and opens with a
meditation on the enigma of colour. Water often appears as a
metaphoric riff within the fabric of the collection, as sugar cane
tells its own story in 'Sugar Cane's Saga' and water speaks for
itself in a witty debate with wine, inspired by the satirical
tradition of the goliards, wandering clerics of the Middle Ages.
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