Conversation
with a Stone
Richard
Taylor
Richard
Taylor's poems are inquiries into the phenomena that make up a life.
They are the result of a personalised process of observation and interrogation.
If they are sometimes blunt that is because his conclusions required
such directness. There is also lyricism, when the silence of reflection
is disturbed by intuition; and there is his penchant for the aphoristic;
and then there is the fragmentary aspect of some of the (de-) compositions
themselves. Whatever your take on Richard (and there are many) he
is a national living treasure. Whether set in a place of the dying
or in the midst of observed nature, these writings of doubts and unexpected
responses are alive with human understanding.
that's
really
about
the sum total
of
our reiterating
the
unsurprising shock - -
something in our fingers
