Points West Catching the Light

Critics are often fascinated by the relationship between a poet’s poetic oeuvre and their prose writings. The publication, by Salmon Poetry, of a book of essays and interviews by Gerald Dawe alongside his latest poetry collection, issued by Gallery Press, allows one to verify the connections yet again. Gerald Dawe’s prose writings are preceded by a quotation taken from WG Sebald’s Austerlitz: “There is something illusionistic and illusory about the relationship of time and space as we experie..