The Candlelight Master by Michael Longley Rupi Kaur The African overtones draws you

The African overtones draws you into lives that are real and gritty

or in another’s dream that passes through

I bet you think you know this story

Clear-eyed

Louis Farrakhan

The Candlelight Master by Michael Longley Rupi Kaur The African overtones draws youI cant bear the thought of a world without Michael Longley, yet his poetry keeps hurtling towards that fact more and more urgently as it stretches in an unflinching way beyond comfort or certainty. So wrote Maria Johnston, reviewing Longleys previous book Angel Hill. Yet The Candlelight Master does not only face into shadows. The title poem sums up the chiaroscuro of this collection, named after a mysterious Baroque painter. Other poems about painters