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If silence can be heard, a poetry in life will breathe, as in this poet's observation about a dawn which '.holds \/ its perfection\/as long\/as you hold your breath'. As contrast to a hurried world, Maurice finds a treasury in stillness - Gaelic melodies in the twilight of his mind, his wandering in the slipstream of a silent father's dreams, and from a wonderful 'Perfect Pitch' - his reassuring knowing that 'the bow is on the string \/ fingers caress keys, eyes \/ are closing and heaven's gate \/ is opening once again'. This beautiful anthology combines nostalgia for times past, gratitude for nature's riches and a psychoanalyst's characteristically sharp insights into personal relationships: 'I wasn't staring \/ I saw my youth in you. \/ That's all.' His skill in crafting apparently effortless lines, seldom interrupted by commas, semicolons or full stops, conceals the challenge of holding a pen and facing a blank page. 'Sometimes \/ finding the right word \/ is like drilling through concrete \/ with a jackhammer.' There's a brave frankness in such an admission but the poetry which then emerges has been conceived from the peace in silence, the reflection and recall made possible by stillness. 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