A Gathered Distance is a sustained and elegant lyric offering, weaving themes of loss and grief with transformation and beauty, which Chris Wallace-Crabbe describes as "a most subtle orchestration of loss". The collection speaks to our shared experiences of connection and separation; the complex dynamics of family and parenthood. In a time of ecological crisis, Mark's work affirms the value of "lyric resistance", poetry's mysterious way of making sense of things: 
"When profound human emotion can recruit the lyric, the personal can become the human, the particular the archetypal. And a collapse of self can become a gathering of distances, a habitat of healing." - Mark Tredinnick. 
From the title poem: 
"...Be a garden in a city, 
And be all the love you've lost. From all the unpropitious 
Pieces tending toward a self, cultivate a solitude, harvest half\nA life and make it whole. Gather all your distances, and 
father all your orphan fears; hold them 
Near, as a father might..."

A Gathered Distance: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Tredinnick, Mark

Poetry

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A Gathered Distance: Poems

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