Villon in Millerton

This impressive new collection presents vivid lyrics anchored by three sequences. The title sequence imagines the 15th-century French poet Villon fetching up in the isolated and deserted West Coast town of Millerton; another sequence brilliantly evokes the mysteries of the Indian rope trick, while a concluding group focuses on the contradictory character of the 19th-century missionary Samuel Marsden. The range of subjects from the red admiral butterfly to the attack on Baghdad and...
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This impressive new collection presents vivid lyrics anchored by three sequences. The title sequence imagines the 15th-century French poet Villon fetching up in the isolated and deserted West Coast town of Millerton; another sequence brilliantly evokes the mysteries of the Indian rope trick, while a concluding group focuses on the contradictory character of the 19th-century missionary Samuel Marsden. The range of subjects from the red admiral butterfly to the attack on Baghdad and tones from meditation to satire along with the poets acute ear and sharp eye make this book always unexpected and illuminating.