Like an Ever-Rolling Stream

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“Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,”
Thus does T.S. Eliot, writing 80 years ago, open his explor-tion of the impact of the past upon the present and future. Rosemary Parrott too, wonders about echoes from the past, recurring cycles of relationships, and the behaviour and actions of our ancestors, which, unbidden at times, infiltrate our present day lives. This is one theme which runs “Like an ever-rolling stream” through this third volume of poetry.
As with her previous volumes, Sonata in the Key of Life and Lanterns in Wet Leaves, Rosemary continues her spiritual quest, but, in common with the earlier collections, the everyday, the concrete, the wryly humorous are used as foundation blocks for her lively and passionate poetic explorations.