Paul Surman
The theme of Paul Surman's fourth collection of poems, Telling the Time, comes from a lifetime musing unsuccessfully about what it is to be a conscious entity. That is the spirit in which this and all his collections have been written. To ask the question 'what is the meaning of life' is a mistake, because it contains the assumption that life has a meaning. Maybe life is simpler than we think. Perhaps the meaning, if there is one, is, as the dictionary suggests, that the meaning of life is life. That there is no grand scheme is the grand scheme. Poetry is a form of life and vice versa.
Telling the Time
ISBN 978-1-913329-99-0 2024 62 pages RRP £9.99 |