In 2006 Tim Liardet's brother died in mysterious circumstances. The Storm House is a book-length elegy that is both grief-fugue and exploration of family psychodrama. The two parts of the book form a powerful narrative of sorrow and anger, the events recollected in the first part extended by the virtuoso sonnet-sequence of the second. From uncertainty, trauma and silence, Liardet generates force and gravity in the spring and leap / of energy' that is the creative life owed to the dead.
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Trouble is with inventing language, brother when the only other person in the world who speaks it dies you're left speaking to no-one. LIKE SLANT RAIN
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(@Carcanet, 1 August 2011, ebook, 67 pages, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @OverDriveInc)
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This is a new poet for me. I really enjoyed The Storm House. The poems explore death, grief and loss through a very personal lens. I liked the variety in the structure of the poems but especially liked the sonnet-sequence in the second party of the collection. The poems are sparse and haunting at times.
