Orpheus by Theo Dorgan Marosa di Giorgio and the paintings of Renoir

and the paintings of Renoir can also be detected under the surface of Alain-Fournier’s verse

the parish with the metropolis

the deep blue air

‘Palm Tree King’

immanent and on the threshold of a magical or imaginative transformation

Orpheus by Theo Dorgan Marosa di Giorgio and the paintings of RenoirIn a book presented in two halves, and composed throughout in sapphics in English, one of the most challenging of poetic forms Dorgans contemporary Orpheus is part drifter, part troubadour, part lover, recognising deeper patterns in his behaviour, but always of this place and time. In the books second half, the locus shifts farther out into mythic space with a parallel narrative from the Greek world that both mirrors and interweaves with the first