The result is a collection that is thoroughly eerie, often esoteric, and sometimes darkly humourous-occasionally, all three at once. The verse forms and modus operandi in place, Watkins utilises modern customs, pop culture, and Western frivolity as a springboard for diving (albeit subtly) into a dark, murky pool of ancient Celtic (particularly Welsh) myth and folklore, early ceremonial sacrifice, historical malevolence, and humankind's basic 'animal' instincts and primordial fears. With October Twilight (2004), Watkins harnesses the classic Japanese poetry styles of tanka and haiku/senryu in a bid to illustrate the frequent underlying links between contemporary culture and the primitive, archaic-often prehistoric-arrangements of belief, manner, and ritual that were its ancestors. Also collected is a controversial essay defending the seventeen-syllable haiku, as well as miscellaneous images. ![]() Originally published in paper format, these titles are the first three installments in Poetical Perspectives-a series of short volumes of verse from Nocturnal Iris. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trinity collects the electronic versions of October Twilight, New England Country Farmhouse and In The Grip of Sirens.
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