Squaring the Circle Roger Mais

Squaring the Circle Roger MaisPhilip Fried's Squaring the Circle is humorous and yet also mysterious in its evocation of esoteric physics and theology. The title poem presents a mystic scientific quest for an impossible geometry as both a vaudevillian historical catastrophe and a way of understanding God. Throughout, Fried uses pastiche and the mashup of texts to explore historical moments and personal history. Behind its many forms and approaches, however, the book conveys the

and the discovery of intimate correspondence with another woman

in discovering such common patterns as the loss of innocence

… and many more

Habib Tengour: Poems

ISBN 9781905233212)

Baudelarie

Lowly is part invocation

Jonathan Davidson on learning Peter Didsbury by heart and Neil Curry on Edward Thomas – as well as the ever-popular Blind Criticism and Poets I Go Back To features

As well as four collections published in the UK

a creature whom we learn is the girl’s mother

a poetic response to ‘Awater’ by Jane Draycott and poems by Hindi poet and novelist Geet Chaturvedi

he sometimes comes remarkably close to doing so and an unmistakable atmosphere of carpe diem permeates the whole framework as well as the individual stories of The Decameron