The Garden of Forgetting Jonathan Wilson • Elsa Morante

• Elsa Morante

David Cavanagh's second collection

whatever differences in age

From the haunting title story by Richard Zimler onwards

The front cover painting is by Moroccan painter and novelist Mahi Binebine

The Garden of Forgetting Jonathan Wilson • Elsa MoranteAt the core of this collection are poems that chart the attempt to come to terms with the life shattering loss of two relationships: father and husband. They explore with a great exactness the connections between inner feelings and the physical context for those feelings: the Jamaican landscape, and the promptings of external phenomena to memory. They sip the brine of loss: proof that I have lived. Though in one sense Gwyneth Barber Wood writes