Vitruvian Shadows - David Miller

"This beautiful poem brings back Edgar Allen Poe: a retrieval of romantic music fine-tuned alone in darkness."

Fanny Howe

 "& the bus from Rome to Weymouth
wouldn’t leave for five hours’

...on account of a slippage of time of two millennia. David Miller’s Vitruvian Shadows uses frequent quotation from Vitruvius’ De Architectura to ground, to give foundation to, an otherwise floating identity, one floating here in 21st century Dorset, having travelled far before. In such a short series, dream, life decisions, history, and the structures of art, of writing, music and the visual arts, all take part in the assemblage. This is a carefully crafted bricolage, held together by echo and repetition. A compassionate, tentative intelligence flows through the text, balance