
Divided Self
''Graeme Hetherington''s ninth collection of poems portrays the poet''s troubled journey to escape an ''afflicted self'' shadowed with loneliness and paranoia. During the journey, the poet feels ''twisted and deformed'' as he confronts a personal sense of psychological dislocation - a divided personality and confused sexual identity. Such feelings are the poet''s ''demons of despair'' that prompt ...
''Graeme Hetherington''s ninth collection of poems portrays the poet''s troubled journey to escape an ''afflicted self'' shadowed with loneliness and paranoia. During the journey, the poet feels ''twisted and deformed'' as he confronts a personal sense of psychological dislocation - a divided personality and confused sexual identity. Such feelings are the poet''s ''demons of despair'' that prompt ...