Porlock Revisited and Other Poemson Literary Themes Sculptor ” “milk for the soul”—a

” “milk for the soul”—a “sheer magic” that “silently possesses” us

but into the dynamics of creativity itself – its tensions

these pieces make a strong case for poetry - or one kind of poetry - as a medium wherein the exploration of formal possibilities goes along with the exploration of intellectually challenging and humanly significant themes

Carolyn is a woman answering a creative calling from childhood

All three actors gave an amazing performance which really did justice to the wonderful alliterative poetry of the script' - poet Frances White at a performance of the drama at the London Welsh Club in 2013

Porlock Revisited and Other Poemson Literary Themes Sculptor ” “milk for the soul”—aThese are poems about a great range of English language poets and novelists. They vary widely in voice or viewpoint; some (like the Milton, Hardy, Pound and Kafka pieces) are imagined as spoken by the author concerned while others (for instance the poems about Jonathan Swift, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and Marianne Moore) see those figures addressed, discussed, sometimes challenged, and occasionally parodied.