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Davies, Hilary

HarperCollins, Publishers

Davies' interrogations of faith and friendship bring to life, in a language strikingly rooted in the physical world, spiritual concerns that span centuries. There is a moral seriousness in these poems which confronts doubt and fear, and survival itself, asserting at all times an unsentimental belief in the redemptive power of the human capacity to love. This is particularly so in the two main sequences, which re-create the lives of cave dwellers in prehistoric France, and the doomed love affair of Abelard and Heloise.

In a Valley of This Restless Mind

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Enitharmon Pr

<p>In her fourth collection, <i>Exile and the Kingdom</i>, Hilary Davies embarks on pilgrimage – poetic, religious, psychological. Using a dazzling interplay of narrative and lyric line, she travels through real and imagined territory in search of answers to the great questions which preoccupy us as human beings. In ‘Rhine Fugue’ the poet follows the river that both unites and divides Europe, conjuring an impressive sweep of history that includes the Wars of Religion, the Jewish tradition, the upheavals of the twentieth century, the hope for peace. Two lyric sequences evoke the spirit of the Lea Valley in London, while 'Across Country' and 'Exile and the Kingdom' chart the journey of the individual soul through darkness and confusion to a hard-won and complex faith.</p>

Exile and the Kingdom

Enitharmon Press

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