Physical and exacting in its use of language, it was beautifully sequenced, each poem and section falling to the next in a rhythm by turns plain and oblique. Landscape and the ‘ hard chemistry of time’ were a feature of Wright’s 2011 poetry collection Knuckled. Following in the footsteps of Walter Benjamin, who reminded us that the reveries of memory animate our present as much as what is ahead, Wild posits instead that ‘ time is a remix’, a composite landscape that can be traversed at will in the present moment.įiona Wright is a poet and critic possessed of a keen intelligence and a clean, precise voice. Our experience of moving forward through space a footfall at a time seemingly emphasises that we are moving forward, eyes locked onto what is to come. This is a model of time that Chris Wild, the founder of the online archive of historic pictures The Retronaut, likens to walking. The past is gone and the future lies ahead of us. Time, to those of us celebrating birthdays and managing schedules, seems naturally linear.
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