devastating poems of vulnerability and rage
There are ‘rubber boats in the news / and no borders to heavy weather’
about living in one’s body and out of it
and giving a voice to the voiceless (both human and otherwise)
Maskwork by Gregory Leadbetter Immanuel Mifsud devastating poems of vulnerability andIn Gregory Leadbetters second poetry collection, Maskwork, ideas of mystery, the supernatural, theatre and ritual combine to reveal much more than they disguise. Masks, in these perceptive, resonant poems, act as a way of becoming, seeing, and knowing permission to enter altered states and otherworlds, to mysteries hidden within and beyond ourselves, to experiences that call to and quicken powers of life and being. The spirit of revival, renaissance,