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Sat 09 Sep 2008Heartfelt poems of our planetary home
POETRY:WITH PLAIN-SPOKEN, scrupulous exactitude Patrick Deeley attends on "grounded things". Kin to Kavanagh and Heaney, he's a cartographer of his own known, loved space, his poems gleaming with place names and local knowledge.
A philosopher of the near-at-hand natural world, his work contains touches of Wordsworth, too, in his reckoning of the glamour and grief, the terrors as well as the joys of a nature that "happens/ too hugely for any containment", while a haiku series called Basho on the Doddersignals another informing influence.
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