Publisher's Synopsis
This is the first collection of Stephen Tapscott's poems to be published in
Britain. Tapscott seeks to infuse the lyric (exclamatory, imagistic,
musical) with some of the virtues of prose (lucidity, linear momentum, a
sense of taking responsibility for the consequences of words) and some of
the written-in-light transitions of cinematic representation. 'I wanted to
write, as Hugh MacDiarmid calls it, "the poetry of a grown man".' His
models are the Confucian commentary on the Chinese I Ching and the
meditative lyrics of Czeslaw Milosz.
