A Cretive Life
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A Cretive Life began as a mis-print and became a two part variation on poetry, palimpsests and memory – especially of Philip’s parents’ early farming life but then of the merging of realities through dream and memory.
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A Cretive Life began as a mis-print and became a two part variation on poetry, palimpsests and memory - especially of Philip's parents' early farming life but then of the merging of realities through dream and memory.
In these new poems Philip Salom writes with great intensity and memory of experience always close to discovery and loss. Working up from this is the value underlying the punning title of the collection - life accretes in these poems. Like the central sequence Preservation - which won the 2000 Newcastle Poetry Prize - the poems are sometimes serious, sometimes humorous, but act as reclamations and enact a preservation from within the space of the personal and cultural flux.
There are also the imaginative and inventive poems as palimpsest: poems which create ironic musings over the hexagrams of the I Ching, and over music and film. One group of poems revisits the rural experience of his father - and several poems move across the space of father-son - and how memory plays back the drama of our nearest worries and perceptions. But through this disciplined, exciting body of poems runs a major artery of affirmation.
