Revealing an intense curiosity about scientific as well as cultural history, Malcolm Bradley is a poetic explorer of ideas, ranging over past, present and even future. To achieve this in his first collection, he employs a wide range of forms and precise yet unexpected diction and imagery. Fascinated by change, development and creativity, he writes about such figures as Michelangelo, Oscar Wilde and Albert Einstein, and both his prize-winning sequences Origins and The Voyage of Emma Darwin, deal with Charles Darwin's life and work.
It is therefore not surprising that the extraordinary Renaissance all-rounder Leonardo da Vinci, both artist and scientist, should be at the centre of the long concluding sequence Reconstructing Leonardo, formally modelled on Leonardo's own painting The Last Supper. Indeed, the entire book is carefully shaped as a whole, the opening and closing sequences framing the other poems.
He handles the complex subject-matter brilliantly. GLADYS MARY COLES
This is work on an altogether higher plane. JAMES BROCKWAY
A remarkable piece of work on a number of counts: intelligent, well-researched, wide-ranging in its references, but its learning is put to the service of vision and ideas. JOHN KILLICK
'The Voyage of Emma Darwin' sustains a style throughout, showing the poet's control over the elements of his story; it has considerable emotional subtlety, and it has notable poise. RICHARD POOLE
Reinventing the Globe costs £7.00
and has ISBN 1-873226-38-1
It was published on April 6, 2000.
Born in Dorset in 1953, Malcolm Bradley has lived in North Wales for the last 25 years, working in various capacities before recently taking an English degree at Bangor as a mature student.
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