Italian Sojourn
An unexpected change to his writing subsequently occurred after two trips to Italy late in his life. In 1987 he first visited Venice and then, 6 years later, he also travelled to Florence. This seemed to prompt a blaze of much more colourful verse, integrating the personal drama of his own life with the sweep of Italian faith, culture, landscape and history. In ‘Heretic in Florence’ he recounted the stench of the dry river Arno and its cure, portraying it as a metaphor for his own release from merely barren art.
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