The Crumb Road by Maitreyabandhu The Eyes of Isaac Newton the product of a remarkable

the product of a remarkable flowering of inspiration and memory that visited Ian McDonald in his eighties

he is faced with an even greater temptation: revenge

sensually embracing everything that interrupts the view

He became involved with the Poetry Society while working as a housing officer in London: he later became the writer in residence at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig

It demands that every body carried in its pages - bodies of language

The Crumb Road by Maitreyabandhu The Eyes of Isaac Newton the product of a remarkableMaitreyabandhu's thematically varied debut collection includes poems of spiritual transcendence as well as meditations on love, memory and sexuality. Sometimes comic, often elegiac, the poems convey the pleasures and terrors of childhood as well as the mystical world of fable. Truthful, tender, and written with a kind of wonderment, the collection culminates in 'Stephen', an extended sequence of poems exploring a clandestine, and finally tragic,