Wordplanting by Kendel Hippolyte Tom Sastry moving and unnerving by turns

moving and unnerving by turns

passes along

The lines have their own intense music

The River Tyne flows through poems by Wilfrid Gibson

As a result

Wordplanting by Kendel Hippolyte Tom Sastry moving and unnerving by turnsKendel Hippolyte's poetry moves easily, boldly between the worlds of public engagement and the intimacies of domesticity. What unites this movement is the challenging, comforting, questioning sound of his voice, whether speaking to the generality, to the individual recipient of an implicit dialogue, or to himself. His is an art of sound, of rhythm, of form that disguises itself as no form, of the beauty of the crooked basket. He wants the poem to draw