Some of the journeys in this collection can be found on maps. But
some travellers are journeying from one self to another, like those
strange adventurers Murat Reis and Tristan Jones. Some, like
Adwaitya the tortoise, have traversed time as well as space. Some
travel in dreams. And the longest-haul travellers of all are the
dead, like Josephine, whose memory returns to haunt our
consciousness and remind us that not all places can be found in the
atlas. Elisions, displacements, journeys, memories of journeys,
dreams: this new collection of poems by Sheenagh Pugh has a
pervasive elegiac quality. Known for her incisive narratives, many
of these new poems work more by implication than explication. She
uses a shorter line, briefer description and when there is dialogue
it is often minimalist, oblique, refracted through camera or
computer or telephone line. A typical protagonist is a bearded,
anonymous elderly gentleman struck by a tram, carrying no papers,
never named, only visible through the reported details that slowly
resolve into a biography that we might come to recognise as a
famous architect. Another typical poem is 'The Unconversations'
which is a beautiful paean to the shorthand of private references
used by a long-married couple. 'Murat Reis' features the fractured
life of a pirate, privateer, merchantman or mere explorer according
to the multiple identities assumed and assayed in this poem, the
various sections of which switch line lengths and rhythms. History
provides encapsulated stories: such as in 'Victor' which mourns the
life of a young, freed slave in Roman Times, implied from the
illustrations on his gravestone. 'Webcam Sonnets' capture the
subtle, sometimes poignant, sometimes sad, illusion of intimacy
givenvia webcam contacts.
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