Publisher's Synopsis
Taken as a whole, the poems in this collection engage and illuminate the socio-psychological issues arising from post-modern contemporary Western culture. The poems focus on topics such as incessant change, instability, materialism, and other issues which result in the 'thinking' individual's alienation, anxiety and sense of guilt. Themes included in this collection are the loss of rural spaces, the loss of landscape as a source of beauty, tranquillity and meaning, and the shallowness of the age, with the media's infatuation with celebrities. Embedded throughout Jupiter and Other Poems is the poet's Christianity - many poems explore the desolation of being a Christian in a slick and savage age of materialism. The collection is tempered by M. H. Davis' sense of ironic humour, and his celebration of authentic artistic culture. He draws inspiration from the craft of great past masters of poetry.
