The Tension Between Form and Emotion.Jamie McKendrick's Drypoint (2024)
Artist: Jamie McKendrick. Oxford, UK. Donated to Eminia Passannanti in 1993. (27) The Tension Between Form and Emotion.Jamie McKendrick's Drypoint (2024) | Erminia Passannanti - Academia.edu Preamble In analyzing Jamie McKendrick's body of work, from The Scirocco Room (OUP, 1991) to Drypoint (F&F, 2024), critics have often highlighted the strengths of this English poet, now in his late sixties. A particularly incisive assessment comes from his longtime friend and fellow writer William Boyd, who observes: "A coolly marshalled, worldly intelligence seems to be able to take on any subject from the quotidian to the arcane. The language is alert to contemporary nuance and opulently, exhilaratingly multi-layered." Over the course of his nearly three-decade career, McKendrick has indeed strengthened his control over poetic form, proving his craftsmanship along with the depth of the widerange knowledge that permeate all his poetic collections. These qualities have remain...