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The strange atmospherics suffuse every page while the balance struck between mystery and disclosure can be breathtaking...Such moments led me to feel that Morley had not so much created a new universe as uncovered one. Any universe is bound together by language; and Morley brings Romany vocabulary fizzing and crackling into our consciousness' --Tim Liardet, Guardian
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A blacksmith creates a girl from fire. A hedgehog conquers a kingdom. How do you ride a Camargue horse through time? How do circus people live, when the glitterball has stopped turning? In these poem-stories David Morley reinvents the oral tradition of poetry as a form of magic, marvel and making. Opening with a celebration of friendship, the poems tell the world into being. In myths of origin and the natural world, the terrible chronicles of history and the saving power of folk wisdom, the poet weaves spells of Romany and circus language, invents forms and shapes, drawing his readers into a 'lit circle' magical and true. Enchantment concludes a cycle of poems that began with David Morley's celebrated Scientific Papers and The Invisible Kings.
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This is a lovely poetry collection, in which Morley draws on nature, one of his abiding themes, and his Romany heritage, retelling stories from traveller traditon, such as 'Hedgehurst' and 'Taken Away'. There is a stunning sequence about the different characters who make up a circus. The opening poem commemorates his friendship with Plath and Hughes' son Nicholas, who tragically took his own life. Morley, for my money, is a skilled poet whose work challenges the reader but is accessible with re-reading. This is not populist poetry, nor it is elitist. This is a complex book but there is much here to delight the general reader. One for poetry afficionados who like to dip in and out of thought-provoking and well written work.
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Morley as muse ...,
By Janarchy "Jacquie" (Blackpool Lancashire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Enchantment (Paperback)
This is the best poetry book I have ever read. It is fun, it is moving, it is thought provoking, it is ... all the things poetry wasn't at school. ( Although I quite liked the one Browning wrote about a man strangling his lover with her hair. )This has no hair stranglers but skeleton brides and strange half hedgehog half man creations and more. It is clear David Morley is heir apparent as Romany laureate. Kushti!
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