For Silver See Blue - Softcover

Storhaug, Glen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904052096 ISBN 13: 9781904052098

Publisher: West House Books, 2003

Poetry. A meditation on color inspired by Minoan Crete and shaped like a medieval dream poem, glossed by picture credits, acknowledgements and a table of contents. At the same time, this book is a love poem testing the language of commerce on board an Odyssean North Sea ferry, telephoned from the deck where Shakespeare's Pericles hears the music of the spheres. "FOR SILVER SEE BLUE is a poem which reaches back through history and layers of language. This journey--across water, underground, up a mountain--is charted with a keen attention to physical detail and a quiet sense of the wholeness of dispersed elements. Storhaug's playful patterning of sounds and shapes gives the text a sculpted character, and the layout embodies the act of discovery, creating both bizarre and beautiful juxtapositions. It is a warm human document which communicates depth of experience without any parade of the lyric ego"--Gavin Selerie.

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Review:

‘...The poem he has made assumes the need for time, for concentration, for application: it is rare in contemporary writing.’ -- David Hart

‘It’s the book everyone would love to have written, freewheeling perfectly on to the page . . .’ -- Jane Routh, Stride Magazine

About the Author:

Glenn Storhaug was born in London in 1947 and spent his childhood to-ing and fro-ing between there and his father s hometown of Stavanger in Norway. After reading English at Oxford, travelling and working in Africa and teaching in many parts of Britain, he established Five Seasons Press in Herefordshire in 1977, producing fine hand-printed books and promoting the work of new poets. More recently he has been working as a translator and a book designer for other publishers, as well as developing quality recycled papers. But whatever he gets up to, his commitment to his and other people s poetry is paramount.

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