The Beauty of Curved Space author of Flashlight and editor

author of Flashlight and editor of Lips

I wanted you starry

—Ellen Bass

senseless violence

‘Through the white open door to dream’ and ‘crossing the shadows of birds

The Beauty of Curved Space author of Flashlight and editorIn these poems, painter and poet Stephen Linsteadt opens us to the savour of life. He wants us to see, feel, hear, taste and smell that the world, moment by ordinary or agonizing moment, overflows with enlightenments and rewards. For him, one art elides into the other. His words describing painting also describe his poems: Each line a new revelation a mystic curve or splash Tangible, painterly landscapes become journeys of the mind, moving from, to