Aliquot by John Clegg Marian Christie to geometric ideals that tease

to geometric ideals that tease the breaking point of meaning

by land and sea

'The struggle from late youth on

the poet employs the archaic form of the saga to conjure up razor-sharp dark and bewildering images of the fates of women in a world where the boundaries between life and death and what lies beyond are unclear

Aliquot by John Clegg Marian Christie to geometric ideals that teaseThe chemist with a sample analyses an aliquot of that sample, a part of a part of a larger whole. The title of John Cleggs new collection speaks to the poems sense of being parts of larger wholes, themselves parts of a larger whole The scientific knowledge and the sometimes old fashioned diction that abound in these poems are both part of worlds of reference in which sequencing (narrative, historical, scientific) is crucial and revelatory, as in the