Geomantic by Paula Meehan Paula Meehan ’ - Fiona Sampson

’  - Fiona Sampson

this much smaller book is devoted to its author's gratitude for Proust

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Geomantic by Paula Meehan Paula Meehan ’ - Fiona SampsonComprising eighty one poems of nine 9 syllable lines, Paula Meehans extraordinary new collection is both a controlled experiment with the challenge of form and, at once, a free meditation on the nature of memory, community, love and poetry itself. The linked but not strictly sequential poems act like tarot cards or i ching hexagrams, providing moments of clarity and insight during the long nights journey into day. 'The craft', as one poem observes of