The Wanderer's Journal
£15.74
This Here Paradise
£13.99
This Here Paradise begins with an epigraph from the work of Welsh poet, Menna Elfyn: "your language a hymn/ lost in the multitude,/ requiem for a world/ that's forgetting how to be". As if in response to this "forgetting," Wharton's poems move from the personal to cross a panorama of hopeful attentiveness. Clear images combine with a distinctive sense of rhythm and music to shape a collection both straight-ahead readable and carefully thoughtful, serious and playful. There is a recognition that paradise includes both highs and lows. The presumptive duality of these two conditions suggests a tension that resolves through the book's five sections, as Wharton opens a suitcase of birds and watches them soar over a landscape alive with radiant, open waters.
- ISBN-13
- 9781772141931
- Publisher
- Anvil Press
- Imprint
- Anvil Press
- Publication date
- 7 September 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 96
- Language
- English
