Vertigo: A Cantata
John Leonard Press, $23.95 pb, 51 pp, 9780977578757
Poetry
Vertigo edited by Jordie Albiston & Awake Despite the Hour by Paul Mitchell
by David McCooey •
Reading Paul Mitchell’s second book of poems during a bout of insomnia seemed apposite not only because of its title but also because Mitchell’s poetry occupies a strange middle place, somewhere between dream and reality. Awake Despite the Hour illustrates Mitchell’s interest in occupying both the ‘real’ (politics, family and the quotidian) and the extramundane (imagination, the surreal and the metaphysical).
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