Description
| Product ID: | 9781788641364 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Touched |
| Authors: | Author: Ian Marriott |
| Page Count: | 32 |
| Subjects: | Poetry, Poetry, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Poetry that takes an unflinching look at the experience of living with long-term, severe mental states and yet finds reasons for hope. In the initial sequence of this pamphlet, and following short lyrics, the writer explores the experience of living with long-term, and severe mental states. There is no safe haven of medical ''pathology'' here, but an urgent rite of passage for the damaged and conflicted soul. A form of modern Purgatory-escaping the grasping jaws of Inferno, to find itself stumbling towards a rarefied, yet earthy, Paradiso. Ian Marriott''s marvellous poems inhabit rather than observe nature - in fact they do both - but are as much concerned with the human condition. They work in the area of what Hopkins called instress. The voice is calm, contained and precise, as when he watches a Pond Skater, "So perilous / this thin meniscus - / six legs spread out". The poems too seem to tremble on the water of their vision. |
| Imprint Name: | Cinnamon Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cinnamon Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-04-04 |
