Orpheus by Theo Dorgan Will Harris What seems essential is to

What seems essential is to keep the pages open

notably love

Often dramatic and incantatory in his poetics

and concludes with a delicious prose account of Dot’s life

Orpheus by Theo Dorgan Will Harris What seems essential is toIn a book presented in two halves, and composed throughout in sapphics in English, one of the most challenging of poetic forms Dorgans contemporary Orpheus is part drifter, part troubadour, part lover, recognising deeper patterns in his behaviour, but always of this place and time. In the books second half, the locus shifts farther out into mythic space with a parallel narrative from the Greek world that both mirrors and interweaves with the first