John Jordan: Selected Poems Christine Evans there’s a sack of hard

there’s a sack of hard wheat

Amongst his previous books are Talking of the Royal Family: Banal Nationalism

Blotches and Healing Lights: The Conversation Between ‘New American’ Film and Poetry (forthcoming 2009)

In 1973-74 he and his family lived in Chile

Moreau where dream and the subconscious are barely contained by the rational impulses of language—to fascinating effect

John Jordan: Selected Poems Christine Evans there’s a sack of hard"John Jordan was conscious of the general sense of malaise that pervaded post war Europe. Some of the poems from the 1960s and 70s come close to expressing a sense of weltschmerz (universal sorrow) [Others] are poems of pity and terror, and are truly haunting reflections on the nature of suffering, the mystery at the heart of forgiveness, and the question of redemption." from the Introduction by editor Hugh McFadden "These can be very dark poems full