Flowers by the Road: David Coldwell, Templar
David Coldwell resides in the West Yorkshire Pennines, and at the heart of this pamphlet is an elemental, almost mystical relationship with landscape. The lines in the poems are long and conversational in style, but deeper meanings lie beneath their surface.
The image of a still reservoir comes to mind, prompted perhaps by such poems as ‘The Cat Stone Cast’, where the long line seems to reflect...
21st July 2017