This My Body Is Kiklos

<p>First a word about Kiklos. A variant spelling of Greek word Kyklos meaning cycle or circle it is in the present context – to quote Nevil Coghill President The Poetry Society which first published the Gavin Bantock poem in question namely Ichor – the‘circle-city of person itself.’</p><p>This My Body Is Kiklos – a quote from Ichor – retraces Parminder Singh’s journey into the dim and distant past another inwards. In the course of his journey he encounters the girl he broke faith with; the wife he couldn’t quite convince of his love; the aged parents he let down; violent death meted out to his cousins in the aftermath of the assassination of the Prime Minister by two Sikh bodyguards. </p><p>Parminder’s is a journey in quest of the songbird where it nests in a stilled heart.</p>