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Small-Scale Observations
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781848618473
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Published: Oct 7 2022
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The poems in James Sutherland-Smith's eighth collection move from the garden into the neighbourhood of a down-at-heel Hapsburg town and then range into the nearby forest, the personal and the past. Borders are crossed and seemingly insignificant creatures suddenly gain visionary dimensions. The title poem recalls a poet whose attention to the small-scale made his work seem minor, yet as Hardy wrote he noticed such things, a heedfulness absent in a contemporary world where both simplistic analysis and solutions constantly fail to address threats to our very existence.
The namesake of a war criminal
has been chopping wood for three days
hefting an orange-handled axe.
Behind him three hunting dogs bark
at the nonchalant passage of a cat.
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