Restorations

Restorations is the vibrant new collection by Rosalind Hudis, a poet based in West Wales. It's about the hunger to possess and the need to let go. The book is a journey into what it means to preserve: a monument, a moment, a life-story, a poppy.

The collection roams through these subjects, and others, exploring how they mourn, or celebrate, or distort, or resist, the mutability of experience within the physical universe.The masterworks mentioned have as much to say through Written in the voice or guise of the art-restorer, the poems are precise in their observations and meticulous about recovering memories, building their surfaces up carefully with layers of thoughts and images.Welding themes from art and history with the contemporary, there are poems about pigments and dictators, glue, glass houses, collections, seed, crinolines and barometers, memory itself.