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FINE CRAFTED POETRY
Gunvor Skogsholm
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*Appeared in Poetry Forum
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The Flowers of Thirst is a fine crafted book of poetry. "Love is a powerful basic human need," says Mr. Gill. And because both poetry and love are universally of interest, this collection ought to find world wide readers, he adds.
In going through his work, I find he is right. Phrases such as, "love is a moon sight of..." shows Mr. Gill is adequately handling the elements of rhymes and meaning, and makes good use of both. Further, "What a mystery, what a surprise, we do not meet, yet never apart," bring to us the vision of what we could like to call "poetic language" which is so absent in much of contemporary poetry. Congratulations, Stephen.
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