The Ghostly Effect Published by Dempsey & Windle
Steve Xerri said about this collection:
Paul Surman's assured poetic touch is much in evidence in this new collection as he returns to his signature preoccupations with the world's mutability and the transient individual's perceptions of it, taking a humane and generous pleasure in recording the minutiae of daily life with wry affection.
This is artfully phrased poetry which fairly crackles with sharp observation, its focus free-wheeling over natural, social and psychological realities – quietly but firmly resisting easy metaphysical or otherwise grandiose conclusions and declaring an acceptance, won through careful consideration, that "being alive is meaning enough".
Jeremy Hilton said about this collection;
Paul Surman's poetry has always straddled an uneasy line between sharply observed reality and a shadowy dream world of the subconscious. In this new collection, he explores philosophically the nature of this subterranean mind-world and its "ghostly effect", while never losing sight of the
beauty of the natural world and the ongoing threat to it, in poems which sometimes attain a
visionary or transformative quality.
UK cost: £10.00 + £1.50 p&p = £11.50 Europe cost: £10.00 + £4.00 p&p = £14.00
For Overseas cost please contact me and I will check and advise.
To purchase from me send an email to paul@surman5.plus.com
To purchase via PayPal use the send and request facility to send payment to the
above email address, confirming the address to which you want it to be despatched.
I will send copies of the collection as soon as I can after receiving payment.
Steve Xerri said about this collection:
Paul Surman's assured poetic touch is much in evidence in this new collection as he returns to his signature preoccupations with the world's mutability and the transient individual's perceptions of it, taking a humane and generous pleasure in recording the minutiae of daily life with wry affection.
This is artfully phrased poetry which fairly crackles with sharp observation, its focus free-wheeling over natural, social and psychological realities – quietly but firmly resisting easy metaphysical or otherwise grandiose conclusions and declaring an acceptance, won through careful consideration, that "being alive is meaning enough".
Jeremy Hilton said about this collection;
Paul Surman's poetry has always straddled an uneasy line between sharply observed reality and a shadowy dream world of the subconscious. In this new collection, he explores philosophically the nature of this subterranean mind-world and its "ghostly effect", while never losing sight of the
beauty of the natural world and the ongoing threat to it, in poems which sometimes attain a
visionary or transformative quality.
UK cost: £10.00 + £1.50 p&p = £11.50 Europe cost: £10.00 + £4.00 p&p = £14.00
For Overseas cost please contact me and I will check and advise.
To purchase from me send an email to paul@surman5.plus.com
To purchase via PayPal use the send and request facility to send payment to the
above email address, confirming the address to which you want it to be despatched.
I will send copies of the collection as soon as I can after receiving payment.
