Meridian ” The poems in Night

” The poems in Night Court are often starkly rendered

Comparisons open into comparisons like petals from otherworldly flowers

Cameron Morse

It is a book that seeks to find and maintain a human voice in a world filled with distractions: Love and lightning

Meridian ” The poems in NightBeginning with an exhortation as finely calibrated as clockworkdear reader Im trapped beating on the other pages sideand proceeding in filigreed language that is at once sparse and lush, Raymond Gibsons Meridian reads like a French detective novel translated by Sappho into sparking, barking and completely original English. Brimming with invention and intelligence, this is poetry that cuts to the bone and reaches the ether. As a moth lays eggs on a