Eavan Boland has praised Grevel Lindop's 'lyric voice that handles images well, that distinguishes - as few poets do - the erotic from the sexual, that moves language in and out of metaphor with skill and grace.' The erotic and the sexual are richly represented in this new collection, whose subjects of celebration range from the lemons in Robert Graves' garden to a blood-drinking Tibetan deity. At its heart are a group of passionate love poems, and a sequence set in an East London strip club, treated with the imaginative insight and verbal skill that led R.V. Bailey, reviewing Lindop's Selected Poems, to write that, 'All the tricks in the poet's bag work for him as a master, so unobtrusively that it is only at the second or third reading that you become aware that the thought and feeling...are supported by an amazingly intricate web of sound.' This new collection will enhance Lindop's reputation for originality as well as for mastery of poetic tradition.
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'Grevel Lindop celebrates a cosmic harmony that upholds the greatest and the least parts of the universe... His perspectives open on the stories within stories, where what is "real" and what is illusory are woven together. Grevel Lindop does not see the world about him as in need of "improving", for he sees all with the eye of love.' - Kathleen Raine.
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Grevel Lindop was formerly a Professor of English at the University of Manchester and is now a freelance writer. His Selected Poems appeared from Carcanet in 2000. He is working on a biography of the poet, novelist and theologian Charles Williams.
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Associations with the White Goddess, in particular, may root expectations of Grevel Lindop's work in a very British tradition. But, while this latest collection of his poetry is a journey which begins with home and the hearth and does move through familar White Goddess territory, he takes us swiftly on to more and more exotic places. Love, fantasy and sexual experience are portrayed in intimate - often surprising, but always sensitive - detail. GL eventually brings the reader into a strip club, inviting parallels with the triangle of dancer-voyeur-art and that of the art of poetry, tangling illusion and reality. A potentially risky subject is treated gracefully, with - "language whose fine shades distinguish/ sex from allure, the offer from the tease - " where plain smouldering is combined, in a lightness of metaphor and humour - 'Ars poetica' as a title made me laugh out loud - with GL's familiar formal skill. This section culminates in a sonnet sequence in a strip joint, which is admirably executed - and for sheer candid voyeurism has to be a first.
Overall, the journey is exciting: GL's verbal skills are never dull (and here, apparently, the girls' conversation is verbatim) but the poems in this collection push language - and subject matter - to new limits.
Overall, the journey is exciting: GL's verbal skills are never dull (and here, apparently, the girls' conversation is verbatim) but the poems in this collection push language - and subject matter - to new limits.
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