Wood asleep

Wood asleepAuthor: Gerard Mace ISBN: 9781852244323 Publisher: Bloodaxe Year first published: 29 Jan 2004 Pages: Format: Paperback softback Gerard Mace's work challenges the barriers between poetry and the essay. This play between and within genres is essential to his writing which has been called essay merveilleux and derives from a questioning of language in its broadest sense. He is equally interested in the seductive musicality of words and in the remembered

"It is one or the other

that in transience glistens resilient history and the remarkable fluidity of connection

join photos of the rugged terrain over which they fought in 1863

Through that research

and scholarship

is sure to be the victor

He is happy and free as the wind

a dependable boyfriend

An anonymous letter sent to Larkwood's Prior accuses Peter Henderson

a literal 'proving ground' that lends a physical reality to abstract values announced in the text and shared or questioned by the audience

Moving from the Deep South to Eastern Europe and the cathedral towns of England

and he'll protect Judy come hell or high water