The Moving World

In The Moving World, the immediacy of Michael Healds poems rises from the practice of exploring the experience of experience itself.- These are poems which shed many familiar poetic devices (the richness of metaphor, the play of language) to explore the singular moment of presence in deliberately conscious beings. Esteemed poet Robert Gray says: The techniques of modern poetry are highly appropriate for Mike Healds investigation, because they allow so much precision, such suspension of attentiveness, between one word, one nuance, and the next, because of the emphases that rhythm brings, and because of the concrete,-vivid communication, beyond words, that the constant use of images allows.