Prism and the Rose

Poems by Schaeffer Lemalu (1983-2021)
Introduction by Donald Revell

The debut collection from a great poet and artist gone too soon. His word is among us, travelling still, full of candour, humility, and a loving regard for detail.

Gentle/tough. An artist with a quiet command of selection, placement and intervention of and with material and occurrence. With casualness yet acuity, his reveries, observed patterns and instances are noted, fixed for a spell into exquisite and often spare records. In unexpected rhythms, rarified accounts are sent forth into the world—delicate, slight, small in scale—they echo outwards… resonate… ever-expansive…

—Victoria Wynne-Jones