Michael Swan said about this collection: Paul Surman's poetry engages directly and deeply with his surroundings. At the same time, he sees the 'dangerous ambiguity' of nature, with its lack of clear boundaries. 'I'm no longer me, but the night looking at itself.' He laughs at philosophers 'with their pith helmets / and their blunderbusses, / hunting for the elusive answer / in a jungle of the mind', and missing the beauty of simple things. But he shares their anxieties: 'This juxtaposition of bird and machine / says something simple that is too complex / for me to disentangle.' And what is the role of consciousness, he wonders, in the vast cosmos that 'has no opinion but its existence'? Few poets have captured, as Paul Surman does, the inbetweenness of ourselves and our wonderful but confusing world. This is a welcome addition to his already considerable achievement: a very fine collection by a very fine poet.
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