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The Museum of Light
by Rupert Loydell
The Museum of Light is a strong and unusual collection, in which the five discreet parts of 'Background Noise', the uncompromising sequence that forms the backbone of this book, are interspersed by a tapestry of contrasting poems, some ironic, some light-hearted, some delicately lyrical.
The reader embarks on a journey that is both arduous and revealing, a journey from an indeterminate starting point to an indeterminate destination by way of a rich collage of ideas, images, voices and landscapes that are at once familiar and unrecognized.
[His] approach is elegant, but with a hard edge of the actual, as if the lines occurred in a place where Oppen meets Auden — emotional but with a reasoned, and even witty, detachment.
Loydell's work has a lot of painterly qualities and associations — chromatic, brisk, light detail cast in ventful waves of intensity...
Loydell is a mature and accomplished poet and his work is always worth seeking out.
Paperback
68 pages
1-900072-58-0
Published January 2003
