John Glenday, The Golden Mean – review
John Glenday’s lyrics seem to have been wrought with a deliberate avoidance of panache. The book’s first stanza is typical in the sense it gives of finding its way between possible misstatements, like a blindfolded tightrope walker’s feet feeling for the rope:
If you must carry fire, carry it in
your heart – somewhere sheltered but hidden,
polished by hands that once loved it.
Writing like that embodies a process of careful advance and withdrawal in which every step takes its meaning by being a development or qualification of the steps taken before it.
Admittedly it’s easy to find lines and phrases that … Continue Reading