Lawrence Sail's poems balance dream and history, delight and
unease: they weigh the art of the possible against the encroachment
of time. This substantial retrospective covers work written over
four decades, drawing on poems from ten collections, from "Opposite
Views" (1974) to the "New Poems" (2010) first collected in this
volume. The new poems continue to explore Sail's characteristic
themes - the border country between belief and doubt; the interplay
of memory and imagination; the possibilities of art; the context of
silence: and they do so with a fresh inwardness. Attentive to the
often alluring details of the material and natural world, many of
them reflecting the writer's love of the sea, the poems also
contemplate the relationship between appearance and essence. The
closing poem, 'Ghostings', offsets a keen awareness of the world as
it is against the parameters of a child's perceptions and a quest
for a vision of wholeness.
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