Inmates by Sean Borodale
PBS Autumn Recommendation 2020 John-Paul Burns William Gilbert

William Gilbert

translations of the poems of Maria Teresa Horta

and proves it again and again

that shows

blossom of mourning still sifting within me

Inmates by Sean Borodale <br><b>PBS Autumn Recommendation 2020</b> John-Paul Burns William GilbertThe poems of Inmates stage encounters with insects at sites and moments of their refuge, torpor, hatching or fighting, of traversing a floor in the night or climbing a wall, of their death and decay all in and around the house of the writer, with whom they are sharing time, as fellow inmates. There is an urgency to these poems, emerging from the instant of their writing, and the close attention Borodale brings to his observation of the natural world