Man in Black
Published on 1. November 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
48 pages
978-0-9553846-3-9 (ISBN)
Description
A collection poems presents a vision of the countryside in decline, of 'absent Dorset folk' marginalised and repackaged for the tourist industry.
Reviews / Votes
'The incantations and damnations of Caddy's poetry are at full tilt ... These are runic translations out of the woodlands, out of the fields, out of folktale and gossip, into modernity, into the doubts and occlusions of the urban. There's mystery here, and a desire to explain the absences, to rediscover lost 'home'. The book is like an ancient script that throws light on who and what we've become, and how. It comes out of the oppressed land.' John Kinsella'Who else could bring together the spirits of John Donne and Johnny Cash in one collection? In Man in Black, David Caddy, a quintessential poet of place, rakes through the gloss and plump of a Botoxed modern world to find what's been lost. These poems echo like footsteps in an abandoned mill; haunting, mortal poems that face the human condition head on.' Lori JakielaMore details
Person
David Caddy was born, raised and still lives in rural Dorset. He is Editor of international literary journal Tears in the Fence and was Director of the legendary Wessex Poetry Festival from 1995 to 2001. He is co-author of London: City of Words, a literary companion from Blue Island, and currently presents So Here We Are: Poetic Letters From England, a monthly internet radio programme for MiPOradio. Man In Black is David's eighth collection of poetry.
Content
A Silence OpensStagOur VirtueBloody Shard GateChurch HillOkeford Hill Overlooking Child OkefordMan In Black At SarumOnwardsSermon By The Crossroads, East Stour 1829The WandererThe Comic's TaleTo My MentorFluent In ForgettingThe Wanderer ReturnsNight HorizonsThe DevotionalThe LibertineThe ViewThe MillThose Blue Remembered Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over Hambledon, Hod, Okeford, These Words Keep Me From Alan Hannah's Home Made Fudge, Hills.Shuffling The Icons Shaking The TreesAshmoreThis Still And Tenable Light