Harvey
Holton
Holton's
poem-sequence FINN,as its title at once shows,is a treatment of
a figure from ancient Gaelic lore;and the association of the Celtic
past with the contemporary cultural scene is emphasized by his
use of titles which recall Yeats in the WIND AMONG THE REEDS:FINN
NAMES THE BEGINNIN AN THINKS OAN THE HUNT.
The
intense and disturbing combination of mystical vision and strong
physical imagery to evoke the vitality and the ruthlessness of
the natural world in IN THE SILENT LICHT O THE BLUID is more than
slightly reminiscent of Dylan Thomas.
The
Caledonian pine (in Holton's poem of that name) here becomes a
symbol with something approaching ,if not reaching, the power
of MacDairmid
J.Derrick
McClure:Language,Poetry and Nationhood.
ISBN1 86232 071 3
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