Description
ISBN 978-1-912616-32-9 | Poetry and Images | Tile (175mm x 160mm), Paperback, pp. 60
With pictures and poems to hand David Rees and Kelvin Corcoran engage in an intricate dance in pursuit of a secret biography of Orpheus and the origins of poetry itself. Stepping readily between the ancient and modern, these poems read the pictures and the pictures return the compliment. Transparent Blue of Everything is forthright, tender, visceral but always lyrical and animated.
‘Corcoran has as wide a range and as rich a vocabulary as any poet now writing. He possesses a flawless ear, a fresh eye for image and detail, penetrating analysis and a storyteller’s gift.’
— David Wevill
‘Corcoran is a superbly skilled lyricist.’
— Frances Leviston, The Guardian
‘Corcoran is at the front of contemporary poetry: the lyric grace of his language is threaded with an historical perspective that raises the poetry far beyond the world of a localised present.’
— Ian Brinton, Tears in the Fence
