Cormorant Anne Dean more selves

more selves

Alex McRae Dimsdale

in search of an answer to the question raised by his heartbreaking ‘Why I Should Be Over It By Now’

running for the door – or speak

of memory and imagination

Cormorant Anne Dean more selvesElizabeth Parkers second collection, Cormorant, explores the creature of the title from all angles. The bird itself however is always untameable and irreducible to human impressions. It is a Devil Bird (Dart), omens in a dying beech (Cormorant), the bubble of an underwater diver, an enemy of anglers, or the elusive subject watched by humans. Parker plays close attention to the city of Bristol and its inhabitants whether they are human or more than