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Crossing the mirror line

Willson, Judith2017

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Summary

'Crossing the Mirror Line' explores doubleness; the unsettling symmetries or mirrored reflections, relationship between the viewer and what is viewed. Poems are concerned with looking, how we select and transform what is seen. Crossing the Mirror Line, the stunning debut from Judith Willson, explores doubleness; the unsettling symmetries of mirrored reflections, the magician's disorientating art that `makes nothing appear'. Artists' mannequins and watchful children stand at an angle to the familiar world; an estuary elides distinctions between land and sea. Like the eighteenth-century artists' landscape mirror that reconfigured the relationship between the viewer and what is viewed, these poems are concerned with looking, how it selects and transforms what is seen.