Desolate Market by Julian Turner Waywiser but this peony is nearer

but this peony is nearer the chrysanthemum of Japanese writing from long ago

These poems are luminous despatches from the charged

often drawn from the molten core of childhood

Miraculously

whether visiting the depths of Leeds’ sewers or tasting the Hebrides sea

Desolate Market by Julian Turner Waywiser but this peony is nearerJulian Turners Desolate Market takes as its tuning fork a line from William Blakes Vela, or the 4 Zoas: Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy. Fascinated by the interaction of material and mystical forces, Turner sets up a series of test cases in which the power of the human imagination, and its susceptibility to quasi mystical influence, are explored. Poems on influencing machines (mind controlling contraptions housed in the