The Silent Poems

The calculated instabilities in Ellis's poems are self-reflexively composed from his subtle shiftings between 'I', 'you' and 'it', in a very original re-inventing of a form of expressionism in which the self warps what it encounters but simultaneously is warped by the pressure exerted by the implied presence of alien subjectivities, and the explicit presence of a fragmentary world of defamiliarised objects. Because they share similar philosophical influences, the poet Ellis most resembles i...