Search Party by Richard Meier Colette Bryce a live or latent connection

a live or latent connection that can be activated at any time

unsettling observations

Robert Buchanan in the Athenaeum pronounced Swinburne ‘unclean for the sake of uncleanness’

Together they offer a fresh

disjointed phrases of yearning

Search Party by Richard Meier Colette Bryce a live or latent connectionRichard Meiers first collection of poetry won many admirers for its wry, wise and sharp eyed insight into the minutiae of daily life, and for the poets remarkable ability to uncover the little abysses that lurk just below the domestic familiar. As the title indicates, his second, Search Party, casts its net more widely and looks at our experiences of being lost to others, as well as lost from ourselves. Many of the poems in this collection explore