Spillway : New and Selected Poems by Ian Pople Eyewear And when here “Love goes

And when here “Love goes deeper down

and how these relationships change

labyrinthine quest-poem in which the protagonist is drawn ever onward through a series of encounters and reflections like an after-hours Orpheus

or the spontaneous and cathartic practice of the writer’s ‘morning pages’ – until they reach the book’s arresting central sequence

This Thing of Blood & Love

Spillway : New and Selected Poems by Ian Pople Eyewear And when here “Love goesIan Pople is a man of the world. He has travelled and taught in the UK, Greece, Sudan and Saudi Arabia. His poems explore England, the larger world, and how changing perspectives readjust the sense of England and home. They deal with borders, crossings, closing boundaries. They are about transitions in space and time, the ways life and relationships change and adapt to illness, love, estrangement and loss. The traveller changes identities as he moves,