Cavalcanty by Peter Hughes David Kinloch This epigrammatic sequence is based

This epigrammatic sequence is based on the ekphrastic graffiti-poems inscribed between the 8th and 10th centuries at a royal pleasure palace and fortress in Sri Lanka

ill-considered second marriage followed by her migration from New Zealand to England in 1963)

exploring salvation

Life goes on its desultory way

play and inconsequence…

Cavalcanty by Peter Hughes David Kinloch This epigrammatic sequence is basedThe thirteenth century Tuscan poet Guido Cavalcanti helped to create a new poetry that belonged to the city rather than the court, and through his use of Tuscan vernacular gave an extraordinary intensity and craft to his explorations of the social and psychological dimensions of love. Peter Hughes has taken Cavalcantis groundbreaking poems and used them as springboards for his own creative versions. Following in the footsteps of Dante Gabriel