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Though John Glenday has long been admired for his lyrically delicate and emotionally powerful poetry, he has remained something of a well-kept secret. His third collection, Grain, makes his singular talent available to a wider audience. Sometimes Glenday’s poems are forcefully direct; sometimes they are so quiet they feel as if they were composed within a capacious listening, as a form of secular prayer. Glenday’s seamless lyric can also disguise some wild and surreal tales: the Beauty and the Beast told in reverse, a bizarre list of new saints, or a can of peaches waiting for the invention of the tin-opener. However, the lasting impression is of a genuinely spiritual poet, one with the ability to turn every earthly detail towards the same clear light. Grain announces Glenday as an essential voice in contemporary poetry.
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John Glenday conveys clearly and with loving attention, the way in which an absence or a loss is a powerful presence. This poetry is wise as well as beautiful.
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Grain, John Glenday's first volume since 1995, has 43 short poems. This is recognisably the poet of Undark, but happier, more open, more playful. (It took an embarrassing three readings before I got the joke in the litany of saints, St Orage.)
His tone is quietly intimate, often directed to a `you' and ending with a declaration. Here Glenday responds in Silence the Colour of Snow to the accusation of never talking:
...Hush now, not another word.
Look! High over the frozen roofs,
my answer hangs and falls, that six-fingered star.
There are meditations on love and on death - as in the inversions of Etching of a Line of Trees - and there's religious conviction alongside a love of this world. Sometimes you need Wikipedia but Glenday often writes with shocking simplicity. A volume of poetry to fall in love with.
His tone is quietly intimate, often directed to a `you' and ending with a declaration. Here Glenday responds in Silence the Colour of Snow to the accusation of never talking:
...Hush now, not another word.
Look! High over the frozen roofs,
my answer hangs and falls, that six-fingered star.
There are meditations on love and on death - as in the inversions of Etching of a Line of Trees - and there's religious conviction alongside a love of this world. Sometimes you need Wikipedia but Glenday often writes with shocking simplicity. A volume of poetry to fall in love with.
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