A compelling collection of poems that are evocative, poignant and
insightful. Sharply-focused scenes from Japan and Spain are set
against memories of an English childhood. Eloquently written in an
engaging style that will appeal to a wide range of readers. The
dynamo that powers these poems is memory. Scenes from Japan and
Spain are finely detailed with a fresh perspective. The lemons in
"Lemons on the Lemon Tree" are 'not the lemons money can buy', not
pristine, but coarse and wild like 'rough outlaws', while the sun
in "Summer in Mallorca" is not one seen in a holiday brochure but
'sheers off dimensions/and desiccates the orange trees' leaves'. In
Japan, cherry blossom viewing turns into a sake drinking party with
'white petals/red faces' under trees that like 'can-can
dancers/reveal their blossom's lace', and in a tranquil garden we
lose our senses 'in the carp's stealth/circling upon itself/within
its absences'. The same keen eye is turned on memories from the
distant past, from a family day by the sea becoming a battle
against the elements "the wade out and the brave/breath, then the
plunge into steely cold' in "Goring-by-Sea", to the football team
photograph in the "The First Eleven" with the goalie 'who let
in/more goals than we ever got close to scoring' proudly clutching
the ball. A memory of cycling home from school on a winter evening,
pedalling hard to turn the bike's dynamo, becomes in the title poem
of Dynamo Memory a metaphor for capturing elusive memories in
words: 'If I pause the light glimmers down./The harder I push the
more the lamp shines.'
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