Canal Grande Da Notte by Ian Royce Chamberlain Is there a moment, late when the water stops its fidgetting, when the wake of evening washes into night somewhere out there in the sponge of the lagoon, when the restless slop subsides and the gondolas, hobbled at their poles are lacquerless and monochrome and slack?
But light is mischievous - it winks at tricks of geometry in oil it flits and frets at calle steps and flirts with angles: seventh storey, single candle, chink - a splash of sudden stars in ink.
Commended prize, 2015 |