A Belgian pagoda and a red Hungarian hedgehog; 12-year-old Hector
Berlioz falls in love; a French tribute to Edgar (Allan) Poe; lakes
in Germany and Italy, rivers in Switzerland; home thoughts from the
Mediterranean; the bloody end of bonny Kate; the painters El Greco
and Csontvary; variations on Dostoyevsky, Turgenev and Chekhov;
Catullus celebrates erotic marriage; with much more. Tom Hubbard
takes us on another poetic tour of Europe, offering a number of
translations (or rather transcreations) on the way. Parapets and
Labyrinths, a collection of poems mainly in English (but with a
significant presence of the Scots language - glossary included), is
a companion volume to The Chagall Winnocks, which was published by
Grace Note Publications in 2011. The poet wears his learning
lightly, more of a cultivated 'flaneur' than a stuffy academic - If
there is anything labyrinthine about these poems, it is because the
poet is no mere aficionado of the 'grand tour', but sharply
observant, knowing there is nothing straightforward about Europe
and its outlying archipelago of the British Isles, Ireland and
Iceland - Darkness may be latent in many of the poems, but - the
pleasure principle trumps everything else in the poetry of Tom
Hubbard. NOTES FROM MARIO RELICH
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