Luna Park

Overview

Centering on the themes of music, travel, and dance, this collection of poems explores the concepts of dreams, ghosts, myth, and magic. Ranging in subject from an Afro-Cuban initiation ritual to the folklore of English yew trees and in place from a haunted library to a shrine of Our Lady in Mexico, this anthology deploys an original viewpoint as well as a wide range of both traditional and experimental skills. Passionate, sensual, and full of imagination, this compendium reveals a new world that is both intriguingly strange and eerily familiar.

Reviews

"Everything that most post-Larkin British poetry is not: exciting, controversial, risk-taking, and above all fueled by imagination as its shape-shifting dynamic."  —The London Magazine

"Lindop has secured his position as one of the complex and sophisticated British poets of the decade with work that rests upon an understanding of the classical tradition fused with the edginess of late modernism."  —Harvard Review

"Dazzling . . . by various routes Lindop is weaving his strange and doubtful pilgrimage into the canonical mainstream of poetry, and he is doing it invariably with accomplishment."  —Bernard O'Donoghue, Poetry London

Author Biography

Grevel Lindop is a freelance writer, a former professor of English literature at Manchester University, a former editor of Temenos, and a recipient of the Poetry London Prize. He is the author of Fools’ Paradise, Playing with Fire, A Prismatic Toy, Selected Poems, and Tourists.