Previews of Lure
This is an impressive collection which succeeds on different levels. There are poems of keen insight and sympathy, showing an understudy actress, a castrato making a recording in the 1920s, an unusually long-lived goldfish, a maids garret in Paris, a bearded virgin saint; but interspersed with these are sound-poems presenting famous winds like mistral and sirocco, and list-poems gathering words into groups with great brio and exuberance. Here is a lure which has drawn in a surprising and varied catch.
Edwin Morgan
Dilys Rose is one of the most versatile writers in Scotland, as well as one of the best, but it's her poems which still interest me most. Whether sexy or sentient, she covers a wonderful range of subjects, places, times, and characters, often with daring, always with verve. It's especially heartening to see her not only continue to write so well, but engage with more experimental forms and approaches.
Douglas Dunn