Table Of ContentSkin 1I.Sein und Zeit 5Daydream 7Evening / 23 June 2022 8Messenger 9Leadbeater' s Possum 10Voices 11Morning / 14 June 2020 12Morning / 28 February 2021 14Morning / 12 June 2022 15Apparition 16Doves 17Night / 16 April 2021 18Solitude 19II.The Forest 23The Field 24The City 25The Village 26III.Morning / 5 July 2020 29Recital 30Tact 32The Patience of Glass 33After 35Harbour 37History 39IV.On Leaving 43Transfiguration 45Zao Wou-Ki and the Music of What Happens 50Wind, Bold Fox 51Afternoon / 22 May 2022 52Field Cricket 53Afternoon / 5 July 2020 54V.Portraits of the Future 57Improvisation 61Afternoon / 7 January 2021 64Child 65Music Lessons 66Reading Gennady Aygi 68Incantation 70Either/Or 71Through & Through 72Notes 73Acknowledgements 77
SynopsisPerched on a tablecloth with glasses for a summer drink- life, on its haunches like a kitten, thoughtful. Extending a paw- What happens if? Circadia is a shattering testament to the fragility of life and the weight of the present. Exquisitely attuned to atmosphere and emotion, Judith Bishop's poems grieve the daily devastations of war, extinction, illness, death, and disconnection, yet find their way back into clearings transfigured by the energies of art, children, and the sheer incandescence of existence. These fiercely empathetic poems range deep into the woods of present, past and future time. With visionary imagination and rapt musicality, this concluding volume in Bishop's award-winning trilogy on time sings in the mind long after reading.