Darkness Between Stars – Tears in the Fence review 11th January 2023
The authors’ own introduction to this beautifully produced hardback book notes that Deane and Harpur have known each other for many years and shared readings, discussions and introduced each other’s work, finding friendship and mutual encouragement in discovering that [they] were both fascinated not only by the life of poetry but also by the divine, the sacred, ‘God’.
It is this fascination, and the writing out of it, which underpins this ‘joint selection’ of poems: although there are poems about a wide range of subjects, they are, the authors suggest, ‘poems in search of God’, poems which ‘bear witness to […] probings into the ineffable’.