On the Way to Jerusalem Farm
On the Way to Jerusalem Farm Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. How, it asks, does such a world live in us, and we in it? Carola Luther's new book On the Way to Jerusalem Farm…
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On the Way to Jerusalem Farm
Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. How, it asks, does such a world live in us, and we in it? Carola Luther's new book On the Way to Jerusalem Farm explores the complexities of living in a damaged world.
On the Way to Jerusalem Farm moves through the world, seeking and finding not answers, but sometimes, a means of continuing. At the centre of the collection are three sequences, 'Letters to Rasool', 'Birthday at Emily Court' and 'The Escape'. The speaker in 'Letters to Rasool' travels onward through scarred and depleted landscapes, and searches for a lost beloved.
The ageing residents of Emily Court celebrate a birthday and dance. Spring of a kind still comes. And in 'The Escape' there are colours to be found in the distant sea: 'A whole translucent geology, / cross-sections of light and water'.
Poetry for Luther is a way of finding a way, of making connections and
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