Back to Life by Michael Vince Longbarrow Press and how the poem speaks

and how the poem speaks to other parts of art and culture

He has added his own strand of writing to the distinctively European genre of prose poems in pieces which describe everyday objects in minute terms

South America to the North of Ireland

to be splitting at the seams

and meaning-making in a topology of rapture

Back to Life by Michael Vince Longbarrow Press and how the poem speaksThe idea of things coming back to life runs through all three parts of this collection. The first section explores the contemporary world of the pandemic lockdown period through interpretations of experiences, many of them limited to photographs and video, others stimulated by reading. This section ends with the return to life of the neighbourhood. The second section is a further exploration of neighbourhood, with poems which bring back to life people