Idylls of the Nymphai from a Mantic Coracle is Harry Matthews' seventh poetry collection. In it the author takes us on a journey with the Nymphs from the vantage point of a mantic coracle. This, the poet explains, is a congenial vessel for prophetic utterance, a means of catching fish mid-river as much as landing poems that evoke a dreamy, pastoral world. There are 45 poems with rhyme scheme, irregularly grouped, that haunt us with images of Nature, its sunsets, rivers, fierce boreal wind and the unbearable absence of the Beloved... In this collection, Harry Matthews presents poems that are stark, intense, compact and driven

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