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Small-Scale Observations

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The poems in James Sutherland-Smith's eighth collection move from the garden into the neighbourhood of "a down-at-heel Hapsburg town" and then range into the nearby forest, the personal and the past. Borders are crossed and seemingly insignificant creatures suddenly gain visionary dimensions. The title poem recalls a poet whose attention to the small-scale made his work seem minor, yet as Hardy wrote "he noticed such things," a heedfulness absent in a contemporary world where both simplistic analysis and solutions constantly fail to address threats to our very existence.


The namesake of a war criminal

has been chopping wood for three days

hefting an orange-handled axe.

Behind him three hunting dogs bark

at the nonchalant passage of a cat.


Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781848618473
  • ISBN-10: 1848618476
  • Publisher: Shearsman Books
  • Publish Date: October 2022
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.24 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.27 pounds
  • Page Count: 92

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