The Body in Space

This is a poetry of layers and echoes. Poems which bring together people and places-family relationships enacted through webs of intimacy or distance, the dead remembered in interleaved images of art and medicine.

These are poems concerned with the living presence of place-and with what is written over it by maps and history, whether in the crash-site of a military aircraft in Argyll, in the personal histories of an elegy or in the eroded landscapes of the Scottish hills. Here the living mov...