Synopses & Reviews
The poems that Kelly Groviers third collection, The Lantern Cage, brings together are prompted by scenes that occur in lifes everyday spaces—city streets and secondhand shops, museum galleries and trains. The title conjures contrasting images of illumination and shadow, warmth and confinement, the burning soul and the material body. These are poems that seek to shine a warm light on the mysteries that underlie our existence. This is a world of “undeciphered sands,” “lost cathedrals,” “buried books,” and “bone machines”—a land where substance and shadow blur. It is a collection that is by turns lyrical and philosophical, romantic and playful.
Review
“A poet of real humility, who listens to his words and guides them into place.” —Times Literary Supplement
Synopsis
The poems that Kelly Grovier's third collection, The Lantern Cage, brings together are prompted by scenes that occur in life's everyday spaces--city streets and secondhand shops, museum galleries and trains. The title conjures contrasting images of illumination and shadow, warmth and confinement, the burning soul and the material body. These are poems that seek to shine a warm light on the mysteries that underlie our existence. This is a world of "undeciphered sands," "lost cathedrals," "buried books," and "bone machines"--a land where substance and shadow blur. It is a collection that is by turns lyrical and philosophical, romantic and playful.
Synopsis
This is the latest collection by an acclaimed American poet and art historian, now resident in Wales.
About the Author
Kelly Grovier is the founder of the scholarly journal European Romantic Review and a regular contributor to the Observer and the Times Literary Supplement. He is a lecturer in English and creative writing at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the author of the poetry collections A Lens in the Palm and The Sleepwalker at Sea.