{"id":2925,"date":"2014-03-21T13:09:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T13:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2025-05-20T07:40:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:40:50","slug":"a-colomber-in-the-house-of-poesy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/2925\/a-colomber-in-the-house-of-poesy\/","title":{"rendered":"A COLOMBER IN THE HOUSE OF POESY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Colomber, a mysterious shark-like creature, borrowed from\u00a0a short story by Dino Buzzati, presides over Lyndon Davies\u2018 third\u00a0collection of poetry. The mariners\u2019 legend has it that a colomber\u00a0will pursue its chosen victim relentlessly, for an entire lifetime if\u00a0necessary, until at last it succeeds in devouring him. Like many\u00a0such stories about the world, this one turns out to be both\u00a0catastrophically false and true.<\/div>\n

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Ranging through literature, art, myth and history, A Colomber in\u00a0the House of Poesy explores the strange quantum nature of some\u00a0of our most\u00a0fundamental descriptions of reality, those time-honoured poetic artefacts which never quite stay where they\u2019re\u00a0put, or behave as they\u2019re asked to.<\/div>\n

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\u2018What unfurls is unexpected, steady and fernlike in its ability to\u00a0open all around, laterally and forward moving. I could lose\u00a0myself in many of the opportunities of the richest parts. . .\u2019<\/div>\n

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David Greenslade<\/div>\n

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Published May\u00a02014. Paperback, \u00a37.99 \/ $13.50 \/ 10 euros<\/p>\n

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