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Fenland Poems by Desmond Heath.
From D.B. Heath, 60 Esmond Road, Bedford Park, London W4 1JF £4.00.
One of the best collections is contained in a modest pamphlet, Fenland Poems by Desmond Heath. He is original in his perception of landscape and nature, giving an exhilarating perspective as in: River 'is a way of seeing sky. // A road, / one looks to the side / into the distance, / horizontal, / feeling contours, praticalities. / Water, / one looks up, / on looking down, sees up...'Desmond Heath is a musician and it shows in the evocative Wicken Fen 'Remembering / the gauze of sound / that hung between the reeds / breaking and mending / slowly behind us, always there / so that eventually / we did not hear it...' Birds are a frequent theme, with owls lovingly described 'I imagined its brooch face / flat in some tree,...' (from Owls). An owl also occurs in the masterly Distance '... the air is still / and its dark flowers / but the pond is electric / and an owl hoots by the moon. // this takes time to write / but not to feel / and no house round you / and very small...'
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