Lantern Cage

Grovier Kelly

The poems in Kelly Grovier's third collection share a fascination with the mysteries that underlie our everyday existence, that "other world" we sense in the "undeciphered sands" shifting at our feet. By turns lyrical and philosophical, elegiac and playful, "The Lantern Cage" is a collection located on the margins of vision, where the invisible calculations of being remain unsolvable – a realm whose secrets are kept "under lough and quay".

About the Author

Kelly Grovier was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and educated at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his doctorate from Oxford University in 2005 after being awarded a British Marshall Scholarship. Co-founder of the scholarly journal "European Romantic Review", he is a regular contributor to the "Times Literary Supplement" and the "Observer". He has written widely on the Romantic poets, especially Wordsworth and Keats, and his biography of London's notorious Newgate prison will be published by John Murray (Hodder) in 2008. In 2004 he was appointed Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His first Carcanet / OxfordPoets collection "A Lens in the Palm" was published in 2008.

Reviews

"This is a poet of both truth and beauty" – Times Literary Supplement

"Wonderful precision, technical ambition, and the ability to surprise the reader" – Poetry London

"Grovier's poetry at its best is formidable: the marriage of music and mind" – Poetry Wales

"Grovier's craft stills poem and reader inside a 'slip-knot of stars'" – New Welsh Review

"The 'poetry is precise and well crafted' with 'delicate touches and nuances' that reveal a delight in the poetic treatment of sensory expression and cast Grovier as a poet acutely attuned to the intricacies and balances of light" – The New Welsh Review

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