Spillway : New and Selected Poems by Ian Pople #Icelandicpoetry humility and praise —that triumph

humility and praise —that triumph in this stunned

“What a beautiful book of songs

with his use of the long poem

This is vivid poetry which pits individual lives and ordinary days and hours and minutes against the historical events and catastrophes which would blow them away

This volume draws on over 50 years of poetry written by a poet who stands a little askew to the dominant modes in Britain: an Englishman in Wales

Spillway : New and Selected Poems by Ian Pople #Icelandicpoetry humility and praise —that triumphIan Pople is a man of the world. He has travelled and taught in the UK, Greece, Sudan and Saudi Arabia. His poems explore England, the larger world, and how changing perspectives readjust the sense of England and home. They deal with borders, crossings, closing boundaries. They are about transitions in space and time, the ways life and relationships change and adapt to illness, love, estrangement and loss. The traveller changes identities as he moves,