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The poems in James Sutherland-Smith’s eighth collection move from the garden into the neighbourhood of 'a down-at-heel Hapsburg town' and then range into the nearby forest, the personal and the past. Borders are crossed and seemingly insignificant creatures suddenly gain visionary dimensions. The title poem recalls a poet whose attention to the small-scale made his work seem minor, yet as Hardy wrote 'he noticed such things,' a heedfulness absent in a contemporary world where both simplistic analysis and solutions constantly fail to address threats to our very existence.The namesake of a war criminalhas been chopping wood for three dayshefting an orange-handled axe.Behind him three hunting dogs barkat the nonchalant passage of a cat.
