Clear Light
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Canongate Books
Published:4th Aug '05
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Clear Light contains 150 haiku bursting with Alan Spence's characteristic verve and wit.
Mythic and mesmerising, inspiring and hilarious, these poems shed clear light on the delights, hardships, breakthroughs and frustrations of the world of the momentary.
Simple in form, these haiku request a fresh look at the familiar and leave us reeling at how much in the world, from the exotic to the everyday, we have yet to observe.
One of Scotland's most accomplished literary talents.
Alan's poems are glorious. Sharp, clear-eyed, seasonal, cyclical, devastatingly sensuous little moments that catch the heart with intimations of the whole big thing of being alive, here, now. So precise they make you want to sneeze, or laugh. A joy and a delight.
He is a gentle writer, but never sentimental. The beautiful moments have always been earned. He is a writer to cherish, one offering deep and fulfilling pleasures. -- Allan Massie
Spence is a calm and necessary visionary ... This is Spence in essence, all openness of instinct and imagination. -- Ali S
ISBN: 9781841956640
Dimensions: 148mm x 111mm x 9mm
Weight: 72g
160 pages
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