What Space Between Us by David Rushmer Christel Wiinblad our “crypt toes”

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From the sinister comedy of the title poem

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What Space Between Us by David Rushmer Christel Wiinblad our “crypt toes”"Rushmer's spare and abstract linguistic structures may well be unique in contemporary British poetry, drawing, as they do, on a European poetic tradition that questions the nature of language and its relationship with perception. Words are valued for their own sake, held up for examination and made to chime like struck glass. To the crystalline abstractions that Rushmer inherits from French poetry is added Taoist inspired spirituality and the