Artifice Ahmed Rashid Thani in a foreign country

in a foreign country

The priest’s fragmented journals seem to offer Yardley some possible answers to his own spiritual malaise

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Artifice Ahmed Rashid Thani in a foreign countryArtifice is an exploration of the art of making. Its poems celebrate the artistry of craftsmanship: how works relate to beauty, and how they might inspire or ensnare. They consider issues of artificiality and authenticity, the man made and the natural. They warn of artfulness, in the sense of cunning or deception. And they wonder at the mystery of art and language, that which resolutely remains unknown or ineffable. For Artifice is as much riddle as