pdf À Island to Island Chatto Poetry à Gerard Woodward
The 'suburban glass' of starter home conservatories glazes and crysallises the lives of newly weds With his characteristic exuberance and ability to stand the world on its head Woodward combines tichly imagined poems about half invented lands with poetry that transforms the ordinary into the fantastical where baths become oceans and ceilings lunar landsc
Gerard Woodward à Island to Island Chatto Poetry book
Island to Island Chatto PoetryApes Nor is the body exempt from this exploration of borders and limits In one poem two 'gurning' contestants find that they've overstepped some boundary of humanness and in 'The Madness of Heracles' a long retelling of the myth of the twelve labours human strength is put to the test in a poem which evolves into a rhapsody of love loss toil and redemptio