If the Mute Timer by Tom Docherty cinnamon press we arc through controlled fury

we arc through controlled fury

welcoming and inviting readers to be just as they are

But it is also an attempt to recalibrate spiritual poetry to contain our new reality' - Clare Pollard

when there is no ‘rainbow baby’ to add closure to the narrative

from 23rd March 2020

If the Mute Timer by Tom Docherty cinnamon press we arc through controlled furyTom Dochertys first collection, If the Mute Timber, begins not with a book nor even an attentive ear, but with the elusive fragment of its title. The poems situate themselves in medias res: among birds or gravestones, between lines of prayer, in the flux of appearances. Places without words become focal points: the poems seek articulation in life before birth and after death; in animal and imagined lives; in works of music, painting, and architecture;