Encore

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A book of poems  by Tom Finlay with illustrations by Ursula Clidière.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This collection invites the reader to explore. It may be a poem that has a particular salience or resonance it may be one of the  illustrations or it may be the combination of both that invites thoughts and reflections into a different space.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>While the illustrated poems (pairings) are a curated co-creation of poetry and visual imagery they are not all free of tensions themselves; some even seem to suggest contradictions.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This creates space for the reader's own imagination and reflections to engage. Both collaborators are present in these pairings yet they also intend to stand back and offer the pairings as signposts for the reader's own. </span></p><p></p>