Poetry.
Cameron McGill 's debut collection of poetry; IN THE NIGHT FIELD; spotlights the effects of memory: its startling artistry; varied discontents; and casual fallibility.
These poems chart the complex relationship between mental health and place; the difficult paths home can be lonely and circuitous; the emotional coordinates we map along the way a reminder of those intimate regions that hold and haunt us.
These can be isolating passages; but are just as often fertile: I walk further each day toward the strange / austerity my heart makes of reason.
Between the attentive; persistent self and the longed-for; absent other arises a fragmented conversation; an exchange that's in a constant state of arrival.
As McGill shows us; memories are a corrective; carrying back to us occasions for instruction; reconciliation; or in those astonishing flashes of clarity; what again hopes to be loved.
| Memory | Its startling artistry |
|---|---|
| But are just as often fertile | I walk further each day toward the strange austerity my heart makes of reason |
