Love on the Marsh

Love on the Marsh a long poem in 100 stanzas is described by Lochhead as an extension of High Marsh Road and brother and sister to it. The diary-like entries a form to which Lochhead has frequently returned over the years can also be compared to his work in The Panic Field. By turns earthy and ethereal a pilgrimage through a landscape of grass and sky and tumultuous emotions Love on the Marsh revisits the High Marsh Road (winner of the 2005 Betocchi Prize) with a new eye and finds in it the self-examining self-discovering heart.