Small Scale Observations by James Sutherland-Smith Matthew Dickman the veil between the living

the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest when a child is born

When Louis Pasteur observed the process of fermentation

hopelessness too

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Small Scale Observations by James Sutherland-Smith Matthew Dickman the veil between the livingThe poems in James Sutherland Smiths eighth collection move from the garden into the neighbourhood of a down at heel Hapsburg town and then range into the nearby forest, the personal and the past. Borders are crossed and seemingly insignificant creatures suddenly gain visionary dimensions. The title poem recalls a poet whose attention to the small scale made his work seem minor, yet as Hardy wrote he noticed such things, a heedfulness absent in a