# Touched - Paperback

by **Ian Marriott** (Author)

In the initial sequence of this pamphlet, and following short lyrics, the writer explores the experience of living with long-term, and severe mental states. There is no safe haven of medical 'pathology' here, but an urgent rite of passage for the damaged and conflicted soul. A form of modern Purgatory-escaping the grasping jaws of Inferno, to find itself stumbling towards a rarefied, yet earthy, Paradiso.

Ian Marriott's marvellous poems inhabit rather than observe nature - in fact they do both - but are as much concerned with the human condition. They work in the area of what Hopkins called instress. The voice is calm, contained and precise, as when he watches a Pond Skater, "So perilous / this thin meniscus - / six legs spread out". The poems too seem to tremble on the water of their vision.  
\- George Szirtes

**Number of Pages:** 34

**Dimensions:** 0.08 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN

**Publication Date:** April 04, 2022

## Details

- **Price:** 8.64 USD
- **Vendor:** Books by splitShops
- **Type:** Books
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