Exploring Rights is exploratory and questioning of our roles and ethical choices, in a poetry that defiantly and playfully confronts `post-truth' culture and the prospects of humankind's survival.
Edward Ragg Books
Edward Ragg is a poet and literary critic whose work often delves into the intricate relationships between language, abstraction, and perception. His poetry, informed by a deep engagement with literary criticism, explores the aesthetic possibilities of language and how reality is constructed through artistic expression. Ragg's writing is characterized by its precise diction and intellectual depth, frequently engaging with themes found in 20th-century American poetry and the aesthetics of abstraction. His critical and poetic output offers a unique lens through which to understand the interplay of art, philosophy, and sensory experience.
A contemplation on love, the many physical and mental geographies we cross, and the vitality of the present moment.
Vital Signs draws on the inspiration of the medical vital signs in three parts-'Body', 'Pulse' and 'Breath'-each with nine poems that explore romantic love, death and the experiences of grief and loss in a poetry that is as embodied, pulsing with life and rhythmically breathing.