Description

This little collection of poems completes the ’poetic journey’ which the author embarked upon in the late Nineteen Eighties. These poems were originally meant to stand in the middle of that sequence of linked poetry which began with Armoured to Anonymity and ended with The Lady’s Maid. They were intended to be wed-ged in between Colours in Chiaroscuro and Helgelian Fragments, and represent the low point of this whole journey dealing as they do with problems of isolation, alienation and meaninglessness. The reader is encouraged to read the poems in the order in which they are presented. Suffice it to add as the author notes in his preface, “the gloom does lighten a little toward the end.”