Belonging

The poems in this latest collection by Martin Anderson are largely concerned with the nature from both a perceptual and ontological perspective of continuing and intrinsic identities. We belong To nowhere/to no thing/to the shortest abridgement/of air of word/to the cruel insignia/of our acquisitions. At the heart of all that we are of all that we think feel see touch taste and smell are 'shadows/pulled through/a world impatient/to sound'. A world pregnant with meaning and language which is finally a 'mirror colliding/with its reflection'.