Silver

A work that reminds us of the singular and glorious power of poetry in our complex world.

Silver is a collection that shines with a guiding principle, that poetry: -part physics, part faith, part void-, can be found wherever it is looked for. Virtuosic in style, sharing the dexterity of the legendary Argentinian footballer, Lionel Messi, who is conjured in its pages, the poems shape-shift through blank verse, elegy, terza rima and rap. Phillips is confident in his unconfidence: -Not the meaning,- he writes, -but the meaningfulness of this mystery we call life-. The poems are luminous and dreamlike in their evocations of time and place, held in the light of a silvery moon that gives them their alluring strangeness and vibrancy.