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Launching Concrete Sea & Tree Light

The willingness to take risks with form and to push the reader’s expectations of what a poem might be make EA Griffiths’ poetry immediately distinctive. Here we find lyrical poems that are tiny, elliptical, often heart-breaking and utterly located in a sense of place, poems that open a conversaton with the concrete poems threaded through the collection. A cohesive, tightly-written debut that invites us to feel into the experiences of the poems, emerging with the sense of another’s heart-print.

From Yvonne Baker's tentative first word (‘perhaps’) to her final phrase, realising ‘here is no journey / only attending to stones— / like a story told yet again / by an old friend’, the reader is immersed in a woodland that is alive with quiet yet profound epiphanies— the way we live and die; the way we might weave narratives that change our stories. In this liminal place, which is both a real woodland and an internal space, we learn that ‘What matters is the silence that encircles you,...’ And we find in that silence a liturgy of the natural world we too often forget we are part of.

Mar 23, 2023 07:30 PM in London