A Gathered Distance: Poems

A Gathered Distance is a sustained and elegant lyric offering weaving themes of loss and grief with transformation and beauty which Chris Wallace-Crabbe describes as a most subtle orchestration of loss. The collection speaks to our shared experiences of connection and separation; the complex dynamics of family and parenthood. In a time of ecological crisis Marks work affirms the value of lyric resistance poetrys mysterious way of making sense of things: When profound human emotion can recruit the lyric the personal can become the human the particular the archetypal. And a collapse of self can become a gathering of distances a habitat of healing. - Mark Tredinnick.From the title poem: ...Be a garden in a city And be all the love youve lost. From all the unpropitious Pieces tending toward a self cultivate a solitude harvest halfA life and make it whole. Gather all your distances and father all your orphan fears; hold them Near as a father might...