How Long is Not Long?

Daphne Gloag writes remarkable poems of cosmic scale.

Yet, taking complex concepts, such as time and cosmology, as her references leads not to dense inaccessibility but to conversational meditations on the human condition.

Essentially, her work is about love: effective and moving pieces about loss, about how we go on loving in the face of mortality, about what time might mean when weighed against the power of human emotion.

In this exquisite sequence the carefulness of the research shines out, but even brighter is the enduring nature of love.