When the Poet wins!

When the Magician wins!

Chris Murray publishes 5 of my poem on #POETHEAD "a poetic discourse which is also engaged in collapsing the space between women and poetry" 

http://ht.ly/s3mpo

Impress by Candi V. Auchterlonie

Leave a reply

Impress by C.V Auchterlonie. Published Punk Hostage Press 2012

nest

  1.   I see us as if we’re not us at all as if we’ve let our body suits already slipped off and skinny dipped under some glass blown lake one in /one out we walk the same /we drown the same.’    nest is © Candi V. Auchterlonie from Impress (Amazon)

Impress is Candi V. Auchterlonie’s second poetry collection, published by Punk Hostage Press2012.

Candi V. Auchterlonie  is a woman of the landscape. She is a poet of the open vista and of the outdoors. One feels that the house and the hearth are an alien skin that somehow do not fit her. The house functions as doors and windows that lead to water and wide open spaces. There is an obsidian thread running as a deep cleft through and under her expression. She mines this vein revealing a controlled sure craftsmanship in her approach to poetic form.

Auchterlonie’s writing approach to her poetry is singular. Whilst she takes on themes of motherhood, alienation, beauty and violence, the aforementioned obsidian vein reveals a  linguistic nomadism inherent in her expression and it runs through the whole ofImpress.  Sometimes the words she seeks to communicate the depth of her experience are lost to her pen. This does not give her pause, nor does it reveal a desperate clutch for the right image or symbol. In fact, Auchterlonie shows herself prepared to wait for her poetic imagery to develop.

Auchterlonie handles poetic series and inter-related themes with extreme care and she will extend them without losing control of the symbols she has assembled to voice her poetry. There are series of poems with interlinked themes throughout Impress: terrarium, chambers, walnut, woman without a landscape, and ghost hands the ultimate poem of the collection are in series.

  The pivotal part of Impress occurs in the series woman without a landscape:  

woman without a landscape

  it still startles her the way old pain does.   she remembers it well, every hurt that tamed her irises. it hits her like a thousand paper cuts to her fragile vellum skin.’   woman without a landscape is © Candi V. Auchterlonie