Eidolon by Sandeep Parmar Michael Murphy Memorial Prize inhuman and hollow

inhuman and hollow

Susan Utting’s poems are proud lovers of sound

Another was prompted by the work of Irish painters in Normandy

stunning beauty

Eidolon by Sandeep Parmar Michael Murphy Memorial Prize inhuman and hollowWINNER of the Ledbury Forte Prize for Best Second Collection, 2017. Partly a modern revision of the Helen myth, Eidolon meditates on the visible and invisible forces of Western civilisation from classical antiquity to present day America. An Eidolon is an image, a ghost, a spectre, a scapegoat. It is a device, like deus ex machina, to deal with the problem of narrative, specifically Helens supposed deceit and infidelity. The Eidolon, as a device, is