Synopsis
Steadfast but never predictable, the poems in simple distraction engage the reader on a helter-skelter journey down the past 40 years. Each carefully honed poem conjures the imagination of both emotion and place; there are poems of love, loss and anger, interspersed with elegies to family, friends and the day-to-day. This is Marc’s second collection with tall-lighthouse following his debut in a distinct minor key (2007). "Marc Swan’s world is obdurate, but he chisels at it with precision, fashioning gritty narratives - at once complex yet plain, open-eyed yet elliptical; at times startling, at times beautiful in their fidelity." James Samuel Norcliffe - editor of Takahe Marc Swan is a vocational rehabilitation counselor who lives in Portland, Maine, a working seaport with a vital arts community. It doesn’t get much better than that. His work has been widely published in magazines across the world over a period of some 20 years. He recently visited the UK to launch his collection and will return in 2010 for a series of readings.
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