Cloud River by Charles Bennett Lewis Freedman Imtiaz Dharker finds resolution in

Imtiaz Dharker finds resolution in language itself

Shaun Hill

Alongside an often rueful clarity there is much wit

the poems and images of this book form what Immanuel Kant might have called a cosmopolitan dialogue: a conversation between two speakers in two utterly different languages

' – Charles Altieri

Cloud River by Charles Bennett Lewis Freedman Imtiaz Dharker finds resolution inThese lyrical poems, like the cloud river of the title, are a 'journey down a length of weather music'. Set in a level landscape of corners and lines (on fields, maps, the sky and the page), they generate beautiful surprises. They see a passing plane as 'the polished arrow of a plough', and teach us how to read cloud language. Through a fresh appreciation of England's lowest and newest landscape, they exemplify how engagement with straight rivers and