There is a poem in As far as I can see (AUP, 1999) that imagines a future time: They gave me flowers and asked where I would go. To open the eyes of the soul, I said. There is a way but this is only the first gate.
milk and honey is a dance to the music of that future time. It looks back and remembers. It looks forward and tries to see what will happen next. Its theatre is the world turning round and what can be saved each day from a life of the imagination. It builds tentative structures from smaller parts that come and go like thought itself. It is a lamentation, the universe as circus. It is a pattern of doors opening. It counts and it listens.
It is a series of border-crossings between light and dark, old world and new, history and desire, body and soul, life and death, yes and no. It is an attempt on happiness, another search for the oh of transformation.
It is in three parts with a gateway at either end. It can be read from the front or the back and there is seriousness but also songs along the way. Why is it called milk and honey? Because of a song. Why are there two clowns on the cover? Because one morning they were front-page news
- ISBN10 1844713741
- ISBN13 9781844713745
- Publish Date 1 September 2006 (first published 1 January 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 May 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Salt Publishing
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format eBook
- Pages 128
- Language English
- URL http://saltpublishing.com/shop/proddetail.php?prod=1844713741