This short collection of thirteen poems is the first fruit of Philip’s original poetry and was published by subscription on 1 June 2014. It is a collection that explores the idea of the artist; the call to create and the striving and seeking of a voice (if indeed we survive long enough to tell the tales and songs within us); and the need to look and listen beyond the mundanity of the daily grind that can blind us to aspects of the world, which only art can reveal anew.
. . . exhaling
bright speech through thick wild
word-wood of iron gall . . .
The book was designed by the poet and hand-printed and crafted by John Grice at The Evergreen Press, in a limited, fine press edition of 120 copies. The edition is now sold out. However, two of the poems from the collection is available to read here.
Contents: Preamble • Books • Landlocked • Twelfth Night • Remembrance? • Relic of Hope • Coppice • Lux Mundi • The Allotted Grave • Sacrament • Plain Sight • Rain-song • Epilogue.
