Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips Jane Hirshfield aphoristic

aphoristic

the Homeric past and Northern Ireland’s troubled present cohabit in these pages – as do depth

reflecting the strange and chaotic times we live in

they sit next to us on the bus

at events and festivals such as Cheltenham Poetry Festival

Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips Jane Hirshfield aphoristicCarl Phillips's Scattered Snows, to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowledge that's rooted in (always unstable) human memory. If the poet's recent books have been engaged with the theme of power, this one focuses on vulnerability: the value of embracing it and thus of releasing ourselves from the compulsion to understand our past. If we remember a thing, did it really happen? If we