Impermanence

Sam R Geraghty's second collection of poetry is a work of intensity but alarming contradiction; a work that portrays the impact of the extraordinary upon the ordinary, the supernatural upon the natural, of the unequal forces of gods and spirits forcing their agenda upon the living flesh and blood of our human community.

Impermanence represents the result of this imbalance, of forces that the poet Ted Hughes considered responsible for an 'unendurable intensity that lifts the whole episode on...