- Paperback: 60 pages
- Publisher: The Poetry Business (2 Oct 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1902382439
- ISBN-13: 978-1902382432
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.6 x 0.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 648,790 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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My favourite collection of recent years...,
By John A (england) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Circumnavigation (Paperback)
This book is my favourite contemporary poetry. I first read it about 3 years ago and there is no let-up in my captivation by it. What I find exciting about this work is the way that it makes me feel that I am dis-embodied in some isolated rural location, eavesdropping on the poet's thoughts. Here Jane Routh is often either questioning herself, or addressing someone who is not present ( an ex- or absent love), somehow giving the effect of "crossed-lines" in consciousness. In the sequence "Signal Flags" and elsewhere, signals across the sea are used as a metaphor for the doubtful possibility of ever communicating our inmost selves truly. In this it reminds me of my favourite poet Hart Crane. Although I would concede to those who put a premimum on novelty that neither the subject matter nor the writing-style of Circumnavigation is one-off original, I like the fact that it is a voice that seems familiar, like a favourite aunt's and speaks of things that often flare up to preoccupy us: loss, memories and isolaton; in a way that is vivid and invigorating as if overheard out under the stars amid a dark landscape.
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