{"id":6186,"date":"2016-03-28T17:08:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T16:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=6186"},"modified":"2016-04-04T13:02:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T12:02:51","slug":"rosie-jackson-the-light-box-cultured-llama-10-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=6186","title":{"rendered":"Rosie Jackson, <em>The Light Box<\/em> (Cultured Llama) \u00a310.00"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rosie Jackson <em>The Light Box <\/em>Cultured Llama \u00a310.00<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Light Box<\/em> is a very handsome book. The cover features one of Stanley Spencer\u2019s Resurrections and the print is good and clear with very little bleed over the pages.\u00a0 The poems inside are equally handsome and well written and Spencer features in those. Spencer put aside his first wife to live with his second, Patricia, in a \u2018white marriage\u2019, but persuaded his first wife, Hilda, to remain as his lover.\u00a0 And Hilda features in the poem\u00a0 \u2018Hilda Carline Spencer\u2019, and \u2018The Apple Gatherer\u2019 both of which are narrated by Hilda. \u00a0Artist narrators also occur elsewhere in the book:\u00a0 Picasso, Georges de la Tour, Daguerre in Paris in 1839. And other poems are more directly ekphrastic as in \u2018Recovery Stroke\u2019 subtitled \u2018after Grainger McKoy\u2019s sculpture \u2018Recovery Wing\u2019, 2010\u2019.\u00a0 As such, these pieces do grapple with the difficulties of representation, in the artists\u2019 comments \u2018straight to camera\u2019 as it were, through Jackson\u2019s projection of what the artists might say.\u00a0 Or, as noted above, Jackson imagines monologues about the artist\u2019s lives.\u00a0 Jackson has a sharp line in persona poems:\u00a0 Her Uncle visits Vesuvius in one poem;\u00a0 Penelope muses on her life without Odysseus; John Donne arrives in Heaven; and Leonard Woolf, Eurydice, Lazarus, Mrs Thatcher and Margery Kempe all appear.<\/p>\n<p>Love won, but all too often lost, is a constant in a number of these poems and Jackson writes about pain with some exactitude and wit.\u00a0 As in the \u2018dream\u2019 of the ex-husband who carries on writing letters to her even after her death, \u2018And so he does not grieve at losing me,\/\/ but invites me to one of our long walks across the moor,\/ describes the May blossom, sketches it for painting,\/ the profligate beauty ripe, improbable,\/ too rich for this world, too solid for the next.\u2019 \u2018Love Letters\u2019.\u00a0 And there is a nice rhythm to all this.\u00a0 And the better poems in this book are when Jackson speaks straight to camera herself;\u00a0 where her poems are as well observed as the art she depicts: \u2018a shadow in that land of shadows,\/ rising till the darkness grew less\/as if bleach had been spilt into the ground\/ and black gave way to memories of blue.\u2019 \u2018Like Orpheus\u2019.\u00a0 Or in the exquisite \u2018Not Falling\u2019 \u2018The Sky full of swallows, red kites, jays,\/ their feathers drifting blue and scarlet\/ into our picnic laps,\/ our tongues inventing new soubriquets.\u2019 Here the lyric impulse controls both the vision and the trajectory of this short but beautifully executed poem.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Pople<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosie Jackson The Light Box Cultured Llama \u00a310.00 &nbsp; The Light Box is a very handsome book. 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