Interlocutors of Paradise is a collection of five short meditations
on colonialism and the Western mind. Written as a series of
provocative, symbolist-tinged prose-poems, each section situates
the reader in beautifully crafted spaces, hollows to be filled
either by spiritual purpose or wilful invasion. It begins by
evoking the historical formation and expression of national
identity - an identity predicated on past colonial and imperial
activities. This is followed by three meditations that are largely
situated within that region of the Thames estuary where Joseph
Conrad lived, set and conceived Heart of Darkness. The Thames, that
river in the book on which floated "The dreams of men, the seed of
commonwealths, the germs of empire," figures prominently also in
the book's opening meditation, where it is the setting of, amongst
other things, Edmund Spenser's poem Prothalamion and his friend Sir
Walter Raleigh's departure and voyage to Roanoke in the New World.
In the final meditation its presence fades, giving way instead to
the aspirant spaces of a settled New World. But a world not
'settled' enough to have eradicated restlessness.
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