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Wildflower Psalms

出版	Independently Published, 2019-09
主題	Poetry / General
ISBN	168977097X9781689770972
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YICSyQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"It is a rare occurrence in these so-called secular times to discover a young writer whose work is so imbued with a strong sense of the sacred. Blake Everitt is such a writer. In WILDFLOWER PSALMS, he repeatedly addresses and celebrates 'the finding of the sacred' in the ordinary---a morning walk along the coast---in places, particularly those poems that unearth and evoke the 'holiness' of certain geographical regions in what has become his native Isle of Wight. Poems whose settings are Ventnor, the coastal town in the south of the island, Bonchurch, with its ancient pagan sites. Quarr Abbey, the Benedictine monastery, an oasis of peace and meditation in a world otherwise obsessed with the material. And also further afield in rural southern France. Lines like:fog like incense on the fields this morningmaize heads rise like monstrancesfrom a poem entitled Traces of the Reign, cry out to the reader that this is the work of a writer with a profound religious sensibility. Poets from the past like Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, DH Lawrence and the Irish, Joseph Mary Plunkett---'I see His Blood upon the Rose' come to mind when reading these poems/prayers. For in many ways that is what they are. Verbal 'offerings' of petition, celebration, elegiac in tone for a world that the writer perceives as almost lost and needs resurrection. The homages/elegies to figures/martyrs from the 'liberation theology' movement are perhaps, more self consciously conceived but these too set up what seems to be a tension in the writer between the need for 'action' and the longing for personal harmony. WILDFLOWER PSALMS is the work of 'a voice in the wilderness' crying out in pain against 'the sins of the material world'. Blake Everitt's poetry emanates from the soul of a wise 21st century hermit" - Seamus Finnegan