Susan Ioannou

I wrote a review of this book for Prairie Fire: "Susan Ioannou's Looking for Light charms and delights.
It also feels like a final statement, as if it's a summing up and a glancing back across the creative process. Chris Faiers's Foreword suggests one pathway into the three sections of Looking for Light. He emphasizes the Muse as a demiurge guiding the poet’s hand, and he rejects scholasticism or anything associated with universities or colleges (though Ioannou has longstanding ties to both). It's tempting to remember Batchelor's well-intentioned distinction between the Movement and the Muse-driven likes of Dylan Thomas, Mervyn Peake, and George Barker: 'they are not dons, they are not deep poetry readers and critics and university teachers, they are bards.' With Faiers's prompt, it's tempting to search for the White Goddess and dig for tree alphabets. But it's not the case. …" http://www.prairiefire.ca/looking-for-light-by-susan-ioannou/… (altro)