his nature writing to be his most political. Such writing doesn't colonise the landscape with opinion or ideology. It leaves it open for the reader. Persephone is a poem about spring. Perhaps it's also a parable about creativity, and the creator's need to lie fallow and be "numskulled" at times.Etymology, of course, links hibernation and Hibernia (the Latin name for Ireland). One should be wary of opening too many skylights in a poem's delicate brain. But, in the shadow of recent events in Northern Ireland, Persephone seems to whisper to us that, although untimely snow and murderous frosts beset the northern spring, the promise of summer has not been abandoned.
Persephone
from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: Persephone
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