Sacredly Profane

sacredly Profane Has All The Outstanding Qualities Of Kevin Densleys Previous Collections - Sparky Lyricism, Revealing Jaunts Down The Byways Of History, An Abiding Fascination With Overlapping High And Low Cultures - But Also A, And Strangely Timely, Element: Deep, Resonant Pathos. Readers Can Still Find Sea-horses Delicate As Embryos, Dreamy Girlfriends Naked In Arcady And Childhood Athletes Shattered Like Meringues, But Also The Erasure Of Families From A Bleak Landscape ( There Is Nothing But Shifting Sand ) And, In A Major Sequence On The Great War, Percy Black Of The Handlebar Moustache, Chiselled Jaw, Dark Wavy Hair And Barrel Chest And Gunshot Wounds, Gas Attacks And Letters That Stop, Forever. It Is A Turn Which Only Deepens And Enhances Those Other Elements.