The Persistence of History

'The majority of poems in The Persistence of History describe Graeme Hetherington's engagement with David Keeling's paintings. As a form of ekphrasis, Hetherington's responses to Keeling's art are rarely detailed descriptions of the paintings themselves, but rather personal responses to the works evoking memories of his own life's circumstances and reflections on the human condition. The subjects of Keeling's "Young Couple in Developing Landscape 1988", "Frontier Foundation 1994" and "To The Isl