Ocean Island
John Leonard Press, $21.95 pb, 84 pp
Poetry
Ocean Island by Julian Croft
by Martin Duwell •
Julian Croft, born in 1941, is a poet whose work deserves a wider audience. This new work, Ocean Island, is by far the best of his books and it promises – in the new modes it works out – a rich harvest of poems in the future. Born during the war, and having spent most of his life in an academic position (‘I’ve marked too many essays, / castrated too many days’), Croft is one of those who has taken the long, slow road to poetic maturation.
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