The 'wind dog' is a broken rainbow, but, in the title poem of Tom Paulin's sixth collection, it provides this most agile of poets with a perfect bridge into childhood and its 'lingo-jingo of beginnings'. The poem is a gloriously singing meditation on the life of the ear - 'the only true reader' - and the meaning and music of both words and pre-verbal sounds are a recurring theme in this rich, cogent and prosodically adventurous volume.
- ISBN13 9780571201686
- Publish Date 15 November 1999
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 22 October 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English