Marking ten years since his death, The Change of Light reaffirms Charles Tomlinson’s place among the foremost poets of his generation. In these previously unpublished poems, his painterly eye and lyrical precision transform each fleeting moment into something elemental and timeless: the progress of seasons, the gracefulness of light, the musicality of water in flow. This is poetry of both landscape and inscape, seeing and feeling held in perfect balance.
‘Tomlinson is a major poet. A bridge between the traditions of European, American and English poetry, his work is unique for its ability to move between the world as it is and the world as it can be imagined, and to take the reader with him. The Change of Light is a pamphlet of fine and moving late poems, in which the poet, despite the lateness of the day, continues to see, and to believe.’
Patrick McGuinness
‘The Change of Light reveals a late style of luminous clarity: restrained, attentive, and true to its own vision. These poems do not announce themselves. They observe. They listen. They return us to the world with clearer eyes. Their quiet is not absence but transformation. They are, quite simply, a change of light.’
David Morley
28 Pages
ISBN: 9781915968142
