| Synopsis: |
SUMMER REQUIEM is a memorial to the radiant days of summers past. From the strewing of pollen and flowers in bloom, the dance of warmth across young skin, fruits swollen and sweet, to the bitterness of fading light, skeletal trees and the cold silence left behind, Vikram Seth traces the ebb and flow of all that lives and all that will perish. Immense, moving and profound, these poems celebrate moments of light, of creativity and inspiration, whilst also seeking repose for the soul in the dark vigil of night. Tender and mournful, they show how the passing of the seasons is mirrored in the passing of a life. But in everything there is hope. For in the beauty of a word, a touch, a sunset, there is permanence - and in the endless cycles of renewal and decay, there is the certainty that '...a new light / Slow to dawn, dawns in its time.' |