2017, 75 p.p.
ISBN: 978-1-926926-81-0
Review by Bradley McIlwain
From Time to Time, we find our eyes searching the sunrise, illuminating a horizon mapped with magic and sublime. Joan Sutcliffe's latest collection of poetry is an evocation of divine imagery, asking us to listen to the shamanic heartbeat in nature, revealing Ley Lines to sacred spaces, guided by "gatekeepers of the old spirits/shake their magic in broken tins/arousing ancient energies, for/in the heartland s of primitive countryside,/father souls have never left."
Like "Sophia/the cool awakening" in Joan's opening poem, "Theosophia", her poems are a "holder of secrets/camouflaged like crystal on fallen snow," inviting the reader to "weave through worlds" and experience the mysteries of time that exists as a divining pool of deep reflection, and with the help of an expert soothsayer, revisit spaces and dreams of profound meaning.
From Time to Time is a bridge connecting the celestial and spiritual dimensions around us. "It is a sacred place/to find it, you would be twice blessed/the busy world passes by/unnoticed." It is a place filled with magic, still inhabited by the Gods of ancient pantheons — from Horus, Ma'at, and Osiris, to Ceridwen and the Green Man, "as strange dimensions intertwine/between the cracks of time."
The interconnectedness and interdimensional aspects of time are also examined, as the reader not only perceives not only physical time — from the changing of the seasons, like Summer Solstice, Spring Equinox, Imbolc, Lammas, and Beltane —to dreamtime, where the "psychic residue/of pioneer and quest/lingers in these ancestral forests."
As in her poem "The Lodge", Joan's poetry is "alive/whispering into the prevailing stillness/ceaseless susurration intensely persistent."
From Time to Time is available at Chapters and Amazon.ca
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