Touched Marriott Ian
Touched Marriott Ian In the initial sequence of this pamphlet, and following short lyrics, the writer explores the experience of living with long-term, and severe mental states. A form of modern…
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Touched Marriott Ian
In the initial sequence of this pamphlet, and following short lyrics, the writer explores the experience of living with long-term, and severe mental states. A form of modern Purgatory--escaping the grasping jaws of Inferno, to find itself stumbling towards a rarefied, yet earthy, Paradiso.Ian Marriott's marvellous poems inhabit rather than observe nature -- in fact they do both -- but are as much concerned with the human condition. There is no safe haven of medical 'pathology' here, but an urgent rite of passage for the damaged and conflicted soul.
The voice is calm, contained and precise, as when he watches a Pond Skater, "So perilous / this thin meniscus -- / six legs spread out". They work in the area of what Hopkins called instress. The poems too seem to tremble on the water of their vision.
-- George Szirtes