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Tom Paulin's latest poetry collection is his first offering in five years. The "wind dog" is a broken rainbow; here it serves as a bridge into childhood where the primacy of the ear - "the only true reader"--And the music of words is both demonstrated and celebrated.
"In the north of Ireland a 'wind dog' is a fragment of rainbow. In the title poem of Tom Paulin's sixth collection, it provides this most agile of poets with a line back into childhood and its 'lingo-jingo of beginnings'. The poem is an ambitiously structured, gloriously singing…
'The Secret Life of Poems' is a primer which offers a poem - or an occasion or excerpt - with succeeding commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase.
'The Secret Life of Poems' is a primer which offers a poem - or an occasion or excerpt - with succeeding commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase.
