Impossible Loves by Dario Jaramillo Stephen Sexton Many of the dreams delineated

Many of the dreams delineated in the second book informed the other parts of the trilogy itself

Emily Dickinson

this collection reminds its readers that there is wonder everywhere

It confirms indisputably that 'Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time' (Rose Tremain

and disembodied voices only further unsettle questions of material and spiritual possession

Impossible Loves by Dario Jaramillo Stephen Sexton Many of the dreams delineatedThis is the first substantial sampling in English of Colombia's greatest living poet, and it draws on five decades' work. Time has been Jaramillo's key theme, all the more urgently so as he grows older. Impossible and lost loves provide another theme, as do the effects of violence done to the body. Absences and disappearances are part of the mix, all underpinned by nostalgia for an idealised, rural childhood. Most of the poems lack a specific