Mephistopheles by CD Boyland Swimming Pool Midway through life’s journey

Midway through life’s journey

A rallying cry builds steadily through the book culminating in a moving closing ode to the virtue of sincerity

drawing inspiration from both the traditional and the contemporary to forge a new and rainbow-like modernism

as we slip our earthly moorings and follow the circling shoal of sea voices into a mesh of sound and light and water – fluid

and knit it up

Mephistopheles by CD Boyland Swimming Pool Midway through life’s journeyTime to get acquainted with your demons. In the poetry of CD Boyland, they appear in years, days, algorithms, doubles, sickness, fossil fuels and factories. We travel back in time to The Tavern where Marlowe & Goethe shoot daggers at each other and disagree about the fate of Faust. We are called to listen. This collection trades in seven sins: one being the lust for candid selfies; another being sloth, the sin of lying like a snowdrift up against