Sweet Dust and Growling Lambs

Looking at this collection Sweet Dust And Growling Lambs I think I can perceive a few recurrent themes. The first relates to mythology in a broad story-telling kind of fashion. Of recent years 'myths' have been regarded as universal because archetypal repositories of human experience. From there it's a short step to the idea of 'fusion' of combining elements from different cultures in a single work. This is most familiar in music. In my poem The 'Confession' Of Gerald for example the Celtic story of Elidorus and his meeting with the fairy folk is developed by way of a Buddhist teaching story. (Phil Maillard)