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The Silence of Melting: Fragments from a Dreamscape
Hardcover
Publisher: Book Publishing Plus
Published: Jun 24 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Memory is slipping, fragments of life dissolve into dream and silence.
In Derek Oldfield's The Silence of Melting, a restless speaker moves across moors, cliff-top benches, hospital wards, and Tangier avenues, collecting small, stubborn moments: a bird at a frost-edged window, a mint-crystal table under jasmine petals, a lamppost that leans awkwardly.
Each lyric tries to name what's fading-love, grief, and the outline of a self-using plain, uncanny images and spare, urgent lines. Interleaved throughout are Derek's own photographs and illustrations, turning the collection into a visual as well as verbal archive. If these fragments fail to hold, memory thins and identity blurs into emptiness; the poems make that risk immediate and intimate.
For readers who like Simon Armitage's clear lyricism and visual-driven collections, Oldfield offers a debut that feels domestic, strange, and quietly urgent. Can the careful keeping of small things-image by image, line by line-rebuild a life that is already starting to dissolve?
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