Votive by Keiran Goddard Roddy Lumsden These are poems to wander

These are poems to wander about in and to take your time with as your eyes adjust to their particular light

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Votive by Keiran Goddard Roddy Lumsden These are poems to wanderTurning on the drawn out thread of a relationship in freefall, the poems in Votive, the skilful and seductive second collection by Keiran Goddard, are small prayers uttered out of an ambiguous faith. They are dreams, visions, and hallucinations; the body is made a bonsai tree, the sea hisses into the spaces between the lines, the voice speaks invocations to the minute. These poems are granular things that flow freely when touched. Unapologetically