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Blake Prize 2013 Judges’ Comments
A triptych on light with chiaroscuro themes redolent of Renaissance art, this deceptive sequence gives materiality to the illumined states. Image, symbolism and address are used deftly to evoke the communal effects of light. Through weather a sense of transition is manifest. Abstractions are intermingled with simple but precise images to validate the description of things‘incandescent’, ‘unforgiving’ and ‘unbroken’ and the ending is splendid and compelling. A quiet meditation on life in a town, with its simple, ordinary pleasures and everyday landscapes, and of the human struggle to live alongside nature.
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- 2013 shortlisted Blake Poetry Prize
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