Published 2024. Paperback, 118pp, 9 x 6ins, £12.95 / $20
ISBN 9781848619432 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Colours Nailed to the Mast is a set of essays woven around absences foundational for John Wilkinson’s life and writing. It offers both a partial, reticulated memoir informed by Wilkinson’s interest in psychoanalysis, and an oblique poetics. Here Wilkinson’s poetry is situated in relation to his and others’ blanks in memory and record, to English lyric after Shakespeare, and to painting, particularly Abstract Expressionism. The essays are startlingly personal, often casting light on an upbringing like the fever dream of an earlier era.
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