Sheila Hamilton: Corridors of Babel

Sheila Hamilton
Corridors of Babel

Introduction by David Caddy

October 2007. 99 pp. ISBN-13 978-3-901993-26-8
£8.95 (+ 2.00 p&p), €13.00 (+ 2.50 p&p), US$ 18.00 (+ 3.00 p&p)

"Sheila Hamilton's poems are sometimes tender, sometimes angry, but always surprising. Like dreams, they offer the reader glimpses into that churning, protean world that lies beneath what we like to call 'reality'".

Joanne Limburg

"[Corridors of Babel] is open to the universe, celebrating psychic, human and natural diversity and the possibility of a wider universe. [...] Hamilton is a "technician of the sacred" to use Jerome Rothenberg's apt term."

David Caddy, "Introduction"

Excerpts from Corridors of Babel

Corridors of Babel

Each room was a country
where, once inside,
I knew the language,
however nasal or polysyllabic.

One room was Finland.
So cold.
Six thousand lakes
and no sense of humour.

Another was Serbia,
full of sunlight,
apricots,
good-looking men.

I settled for the Finns.