What Space Between Us by David Rushmer Christel Wiinblad explorers and settlers

explorers and settlers

the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings

for desire

our “crypt toes”

witty and wry

What Space Between Us by David Rushmer Christel Wiinblad explorers and settlers"Rushmer's spare and abstract linguistic structures may well be unique in contemporary British poetry, drawing, as they do, on a European poetic tradition that questions the nature of language and its relationship with perception. Words are valued for their own sake, held up for examination and made to chime like struck glass. To the crystalline abstractions that Rushmer inherits from French poetry is added Taoist inspired spirituality and the