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There is No Night

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New and selected poems, "There is No Night"
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. . . the world John Purser makes for us in his poems, as in his music and his
scholarship, is archipelagic, characterised by diversity and depths,
bright sunlit perceptions and profundities of insight into the nature
of the earth itself, and as far out as the music of the spheres permits us,
granting self-awareness of, and exploring, not only knowledge,
but intuitive awareness . . . .

John Purser’s poems are a vast and wonderful terrain of things not

only mentioned but encountered, crossed and tenderly, touched, places

and people, ideas and themes, emphatically demanding we prioritise,

should pay attention to, should know and therefore act upon, the things

that matter most. There is, time and again, the mysterious, but there is

also the practical. Purser works as a crofter, he is literally in ‘regular

contact with other species’ and this, in his poems, teaches us, as it has

taught him, ‘respect for their place in the world’ and our place in our

own, and where they overlap. The singular achievement of his poems is

the delivery of this.


(from the Introduction by Alan Riach)












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