Songs for Gillian A Collection of Love Poetry

At times reflective, at times quickened by a rare and intriguing energy, these poems celebrate, evoke, and lament the nature of romantic love. Yet this anthology finds it is not only the human person that can capture a poet's heart: the reader is invited to consider whether the fine pulse of love'with its longing for attachment, its inspiration, its almost numinous power'might not also be prompted by the wider domain of nature as a whole. As the author himself explains, all poetry may'in a special and extended sense - be conceived of as 'love poetry'. Accordingly, this work brings into a single scope the delights of hillside and seascape'the wild and the elemental, as well as the more calm and cultivated. From the north-west of Scotland to the south-west of England, from the lure of the North Sea to the spell cast by Pendle's beacon, these pieces declare a rich soil for what is a surprisingly accessible literary harvest.Lamb, Michael is the author of 'Songs for Gillian A Collection of Love Poetry', published 2005 under ISBN 9780595378517 and ISBN 059537851X.