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‘the tied circle’ – a circle with two dots above it that indicates a feminine word
at archaeology in the making
where elegies for the poet’s father sit alongside meditations on the d/Deaf experience
about seeking ways to surrender "sun-scarred lives" to the tidal dark or to welcome "orphaned slippers
there are 21 poems in all
The Silence by John Greening Ian Humphreys ‘the tied circle’ – aThe title poem of John Greenings The Silence is a meditation on Sibelius and the thirty years he spent grappling with an eighth symphony that he eventually burned. The poem is emblematic of a broader concern with the mystery of the creative process, explored in the work of other artists but also grappled with first hand, in the composition of poems. Death, that most emphatic of silences, is a recurring theme; but so too is the bright potentiality of
