My Teacher's Name is Love: Some Poems for Prem

A collection of poems examining love, self, devotion, and opening to a wider cosmos. Whimsical, meditative, rapturous, these poems are a contemporary expression of spirit.

there, wobbling on the wire
of my neighbour's rooftop
aerial

backlit against
the early summer
sky

this young magpie riffs,
delirious with the possibilities
of joy

Victor Marsh is the author of Mr Isherwood Changes Trains: Christopher Isherwood and the Search for the 'Home Self'; the memoir The Boy in the Yellow Dress; and Speak...