ISBN 978-1-909404-11-3. Full collection 88 pages. Pur bound.
Prize-winning poet Roger Elkin’s eleventh collection, ranging across Turkey, Greece, South Africa, Egypt and China. 88 pages, perfect bound.
Roger Elkin’s Chance Meetings is a wide-ranging collection with an overview of many countries and cultures. These are poems for those who seek wider horizons — poetic as well as physical and spiritual. Read and appreciate the variety, richness and skill of them, language used at its best.
Mandy Pannett
Roger Elkin’s poems burst with sharply observed and well-chosen detail, and are simply very interesting.
Don Paterson
Sample poem
Jeep Safari, Night Sitting
— Roger Elkin 2015
We’re out in the safari jeepten of us, game-spotters,under the vast canopyof the southern night sky,stars scattered like saltfrom heaven’s salt-mill. Trevor has the lamp,arcing it over St. Lucia’s Wetlands Parkin pans of light – grey-green pools at distance –that ghost over foliage and brush up againstthe treeline, the grass clumps,cut-down pine-tree stumps,the safari palmstrying to find sightings –rhino, nightjar, kudu,bush buck, duiker, buffalo –in fact, anything we may or may not already have seen. Isolated in seas of darknesssave where Trevor’s lamp invades,pins of light wink, blinking back. There’s a clear division in the darkness,ebony brushed by the moon,and though no ground is being given,nothing substantial gained,the motion is being carried.The parliament of animals have decidedthe eyes have it. (And keep it tonight they will …)
