Seeing the Light

<p><span style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>This new poetry collection from Scottish poet Kenneth Steven captures small moments of revelation or epiphanies which come unexpectedly as gifts amid the ordinary. An uncleared breakfast table the sight of someone working outdoors an old photograph and the features and sounds of the Scottish landscapes that so inspire his work all become in the poet's words portals to a greater reality: </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>'the small moments </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>that make up the whole story. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>This is the sudden going </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>through the door into the bigger world.' </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Many of them are written in the sonnet form whose brevity and economy of expression mirror the essence of this book and whose very form turns from the ordinary to the extraordinary in a moment.</span></p>