A Trio(let) of Fine Poetry

Eileen

Casey

Reviews Some Recent Poetry Collections

‘A celestial credit note,’ a novel idea and just one of the many redemptive outcomes occupying Lynskey’s considerable poetic intelligence. Measured and controlled, language strays into unexpected territory, offering surprise and sensitivity. This Turning Hour and Everything Intent details gratitude for being allowed another day, the beauty of nature awakening evokes the following response, ‘I see/a flake of sunlight slant from branch to leaf./and raindrops wink among the clothes-pegs.’ Yet, for this other day to arrive, ‘night is trembling on the cusp/of morning, blade and bark awakening/and every moment dying towards the dawn’. The poet, in true Blakean tradition, sees the duality of existence.