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Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty Wedde, Ian Wedde’s work always brims with life as well as learning. His poems are meticulously crafted and his books beautifully constructed. The long poem or sequence has always been a natural vehicle and his entire corpus is so closely interconnected that he continues to write one long discursive poem. In this collection there are five extended poems that lope along in a wonderfully relaxed and rhythmic way exploring the concept of beauty and the nature of language. These are serious philosophic topics (and Wedde sees them that way) but he has written them with such zest and energy, uses such a range of references and echoes, and has such wit and humour, that reading is always a pleasure. This book is a marvellous example of a mature and confident talent responding with imagination and delight to the local and the familiar: this is a world of friends, streets, paintings, advertisements, songs and memories. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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