Maskwork by Gregory Leadbetter Immanuel Mifsud slow shipwreck of the post-war

slow shipwreck of the post-war consensus

The Glass Aisle moves between rage and stillness

focusing on images of mornings

and again confirms Freud as one of our most essential poets

There are ‘rubber boats in the news / and no borders to heavy weather’

Maskwork by Gregory Leadbetter Immanuel Mifsud slow shipwreck of the post-warIn Gregory Leadbetters second poetry collection, Maskwork, ideas of mystery, the supernatural, theatre and ritual combine to reveal much more than they disguise. Masks, in these perceptive, resonant poems, act as a way of becoming, seeing, and knowing permission to enter altered states and otherworlds, to mysteries hidden within and beyond ourselves, to experiences that call to and quicken powers of life and being. The spirit of revival, renaissance,