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This is the second book of poems by a terminally ill young mother writing of her frailty and her frustrations in the face of the pitiless reality of the illness The tone is much the same in almost all the poems mixing vulnerability fear of being swept out to sea and a kind of yearning for final union with the unknown as for instance in the poem disorder in the night where. Gleaming titans roblox up on the cliff edge it s hard not to lean out and test it see how cruel or gentle it would become if it had me whollyI am reminded of Sylvia Plath by Broom s use of the imagery of bone the colour black and the moon The painful thin clumsy heavy penetrable unable body often likened to a bird is pitted against the unstoppable forces of night wind and tide Against these ravages the poems stand proudly and quite without self pity I like these poems because of their directness their comprehensibility and the powerful evocation of the emotions the poet experiences 64
In these 40 powerful new poems Sarah Broom explores the effect of a life threatening condition by way of the landscapes of the natural world charting the hardest things in beautiful language Broom s forte is in encapsulating expressing and making sense of strong internal feeling and turmoil through metaphor and in Gleam her poems bring together heightened emotion a robust sense of the physical body and an external landscape in controlled sinewy language In the title poem she charts a radiotherapy session in both physical and metaphoric there are avenues of light and now there is a wide and open terrain my brain is a vast hilly country This impressive collection examines basic human truths with clarity and force and will open out painful rewarding vistas for its readers Gleam Author Sarah Broom.
