Ian Burgham

“The Stone Skippers” by Ian Burgham is a collection of love poems. The poems themselves were written with very little regard to traditional structures. The poems can be read as a minimalistic approach to impressionistic short stories. The poems draw broad strokes of stories while letting the reader fill in the details. The poem forms range from the traditional forms to some which are borderline short proses.

The poems invoke many different emotion with most of them seemingly gray but dashed with a bright yellow of hope. I can’t help but think of foggy days while reading it, illustrated beautifully on the cover of the book. This book definitely goes into my to-reread list of books when I am trying to get a sense of romantic love.… (mais)