Transformations, by Patrick Cullinan (used)

Transformations is Patrick Cullinan's fifth volume of verse. Reviewing his Selected Poems: 1961-1994, Douglas Livingstone wrote:                 Cullinan is an accomplished poet by any measure, wily in the deployment and evocative manipulation of the language, imperturbably Europhilic whenever it suits him. His poems range geographically across the Eastern Transvaal, the Reef, the Cape, the coast, and widely over Europe. The felicities are exact and memorable ...                                                    Palpably, Cullinan is no stranger to the cursed or blessed self-inflicting surgical blade that all real poets wield in divesting the magical artefact from the corpus of the plain man or woman - not always, but most of the time.

condition: very good (lightly worn cover)