Showing posts with label Nancy Gaffield. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nancy Gaffield. Show all posts

Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Nancy Gaffield's Zyxt (Oystercatcher, 2015)

Here are some favourite passages:


                               the iterate wind renders you

down to tallow this far north you stop looking for light



end of "Blown-in"


                                           regardless of
where you are bats return in the early evening, & we are on the threshold of the [in]
visible world....

*

a solitary blackbird sings
& we are
undone
then

*

listen--what was it we saw that
summer the moon burned 
almost black--
did you
see 
can you
say

*

                                                     we hunt among flints
for a name that cannot be spoken a hot wind scatters the thirty-nine articles
so much space you can hear dust loosening the hinges

*

At
first in 
panic of
dislocation I
let myself drift in the lyric
moment 


from "Eastbridge Fibonacci"


                                                                                             what happened to you then
as afternoon evaporated into evening and the century folded in

from "Lost Negatives"


Darkness brayed within him

*

The randomness of it
        skylark and song
        somniis meis fis--
        you become because of my dreams

from "Abecedarian Hymn for St Alphege"
(a tour de force of a poem)



Saturday, 1 October 2011

Poetry Reviews


My short reviews of Nancy Gaffield's Tokaido Road, Ahren Warner's Confer, and Carol Watts' Occasionals appear in today's Guardian. All were well worth the read.