Maskwork by Gregory Leadbetter Immanuel Mifsud or who has lived through

or who has lived through that tension between tenderness

There are ‘rubber boats in the news / and no borders to heavy weather’

and knowing – permission to enter altered states and otherworlds

about living in one’s body and out of it

slow shipwreck of the post-war consensus

Maskwork by Gregory Leadbetter Immanuel Mifsud or who has lived throughIn 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,