The Dancing Man

<p>In the face of fire flood plague environmental catastrophe and political chaos the challenge is that poetry in Auden's words 'show an affirming flame'. </p><p>The poems in <em>The Dancing Man</em> are an attempt to move from grief and loss towards consolations however limited these might be. Intimations of connection and inter-dependence between all living things is the fragile basis for a first step towards spiritual re-orientation and an art of hope.</p>