Genius of suffering, pilgrim of love

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Abstract:

Reading Andy Jackson’s ‘the thin bridge’.

It has to be said that poetry is the genius of suffering and the pilgrim of love, but more than that it is impossible to write not merely originally but beautifully, as it is here. Andy Jackson is a man of many magical responses to the real and unoriginal world; he is just as much at home describing an elephant as a demon.

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