Iain Maloney’s third poetry collection, Mountain Retreats, concentrates his poetry into the perceptual minimalism of Japanese-influenced haiku. Following an introductory poem suggesting a confrontation with mortality, he escapes to the mountains to regain perspective and find a voice for autobiographical moments which are never explicit but obviously personal and difficult to confront. The themes of the […] The post ‘Mountain Retreats’ by Iain Maloney appeared first on The Bottle Imp.
