Notes of Your Music Oscar Wilde translated by Thomas Aplin

translated by Thomas Aplin

Equal to Mystery – words written by Ladoo – is the record of that pursuit

Poems like ‘Calvaries’ lay bare the difficulties of an oppressive religious upbringing

we read of an ‘eerie maleficent calm

Journey and Exile

Notes of Your Music Oscar Wilde translated by Thomas AplinI have grown older and loved others, but I shall always carry some notes of your music in my pockets, like petals, wherever I go. In his fourth collection of sonnets bookended by two free form pieces James Nash sets out to celebrate what may be gone, or flag up what might be celebrated before it goes. From the simple music of the bottle bank (a favourite task), to the biggest questions of the human experience, the poet's gentle, perceptive gaze