The Unseen Made Seen
My new poetry pamphlet, published in June 2025. In some ways a follow up to 2016's Freed From Distance, a wide ranging collection of thirty poems with a sort of theme. I've performed many of these poems over the past few years but there is previously unpublished & unperformed material here too.
ISBN:
978-0-9567609-5-1
Price £6.99 including postage & packing.
If you're not in the UK please contact me about postage.
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"I
was repeatedly gripped and surprised by its poems. Daring at an
almost Swinburnian floridity, these are always ‘hymns’ and never
songs, chanted under a sky that is ever 'darkening' if it is
there at all. The poems pulse and seethe with a rare voluptuousness.
The literary equivalents of swirling synths, both alchemy and early
Tangerine Dream serve as objective correlatives for their metaphors;
these poems clamour at meaning, are swept away by the surge of their
own diction only to be swept back in on an urge to connect... For
these poems are suffused with the kind of generous vision that sees a
dancer rather than a corpse, spurns the inhibitions of the
fear-cravers, and takes time to sit with a “horned godling”. What
others see as obstacles, these poems open as doorways.
From the introduction by Phil
Smith, author of Albion's Eco-Eerie,
Temporal Boundary Press.
"A song amongst the noise. A poet whose words you feel as well as read. When I read Patterson's poetry and prose it makes me realise why I fell in love with poetry as he makes the world-scapes dance and shine brighter by the way he writes."
Anthony Owen, author of Post Atomic Glossaries: New & selected poems, Broken Sleep Books.
"I love Barry Patterson's poetry! It is full of guts and energy: wonderfully vivid and powerful imagery, coupled with depth and a profound connection to life. I just can't put this collection down!"
Philip Carr-Gomm, author of Druid Mysteries, Rider.
Contents
Phaedra
Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares
Movements of a Visionary
Sequent C
The Desert Crossing
Green Sulphur
Art is Life & Life is Art & Neither are Battles to be Won
Dear Ancestors
We Dare Not Confront the Mystery That We Are
Enormous Gravity
The Cut
Leviathan
Minke
R’lyehocene 2025
The United Kingdom of Carbon
Oak
Good Day to You, Grandfather
For Andrew
For Leanne
Facebox
The Natural History of Uranium
For Tony Owen on his Birthday
Newton’s Rock
The Spirit Woman of Ajo Sacha
Viva Shona
Let Every Particle of Dust Breath Forth its Joy
The Ancient Mulberry of Spon
The Bramble Laughs
By the Edge of the City
Oranges & Turquoise
Notes to the Poems
The image is always more inclusive, more complex than the concept.
James Hillman, The Blue Fire.
If you're not in the UK please contact me about postage.
Special Offer: three pamphlets for £8.99 click here for details!
Published
in the UK in 2025 by Lyndhurst Road Publications, 20a Old Wells Road,
Glastonbury BA6 8ED
ISBN:
978-0-9567609-5-1
All rights reserved
©
Barry Patterson, 2025
The right of Barry Patterson to be identified as the author of this work as been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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