Walking, getting lost, and finding that home is half way between
refuge and a place to look out from at the unsettling and unsettled
world, are the dominant themes in Sarah Corbett's fifth collection.
Written from an intimate knowledge of the countryside of the Calder
Valley, many of these poems respond to a landscape as beautiful as
it is disquieting, troubled by a warming climate and by violence
and loss both public and private. A central sequence - part found
poem, part assemblage - draws on the Grasmere Journals of Dorothy
Wordsworth, poems that question the nature of the visionary, the
in-between worlds that this poet claims as her territory; here
nature is held up as a mirror where we might see ourselves and our
actions reflected. Over all haunts the presence-in-absence of
Sylvia Plath, whose burial place the author can see from her
bedroom window. Throughout, interior lights - a train on a dark
morning, a sudden snowfall, moonlight and starlight, sun on lake
water, the love between a parent and child - attempt to balance the
darkness.
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