Spillway : New and Selected Poems by Ian Pople #Icelandicpoetry "This poetical collection

"This poetical collection

“What a beautiful book of songs

This is vivid poetry which pits individual lives and ordinary days and hours and minutes against the historical events and catastrophes which would blow them away

humility and praise —that triumph in this stunned

Spillway : New and Selected Poems by Ian Pople #Icelandicpoetry "This poetical collectionIan Pople is a man of the world. He has travelled and taught in the UK, Greece, Sudan and Saudi Arabia. His poems explore England, the larger world, and how changing perspectives readjust the sense of England and home. They deal with borders, crossings, closing boundaries. They are about transitions in space and time, the ways life and relationships change and adapt to illness, love, estrangement and loss. The traveller changes identities as he moves,