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| Stephen Wilson's Fluttering Hands marks the debut of a lyric
poet who combines a romantic sensibility with a restrained ironic
outlook on the human condition. There is a playful quality to
his work that celebrates the joy of language even as it probes
painful experience. Whether he is stirred by a Petrarch sonnet,
a Welsh sheep-farmer, Russian museum-worker, Turkish fishing
boat, arthritic knee, or Lesser Horseshoe bat, his poems convey
the workings of a sympathetic intelligence. Several in this
collection are set in Wales where the author has a home, others
reflect his Anglo-Jewish identity and ancestry in Europe. |
| Stephen Wilson was born in London in 1944.
He qualified as a doctor in 1968 and is a Fellow of the Royal
College of Psychiatrists, formerly Senior Clinical Lecturer
in the University of Oxford. His poems have appeared in magazines
and anthologies. He is also the author of The Bloomsbury Book
of the Mind, Introducing the Freud Wars, Sigmund Freud (A Pocket
Biography) and The Cradle of Violence: Essays on Psychiatry,
Psychoanalysis and Literature. |
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