Burial of the Cameo

Burial of the Cameo – 60 Page Book

“In Burial of the Cameo, the poet’s most impressive collection to date, we see the emergence of a unique voice. Both haunting and resonating, these poems are concerned with the shedding of skins, the various ghosts we leave behind in one lifetime. Lomax is interested in the dialogue between these manifestations of self and the relationship between memory and feeling. A journey through loss and grief, told with rare intimacy and depth, this book includes beautiful elegies for the author’s grandmother, poems about Vincent Van Gogh, Stuart Sutcliffe, almost dying in the arms of Richard Harris at The Savoy Hotel, and an awakening from a life in the drink. Lomax creates a time travelling landscape that we don’t want to escape, his greatest skill is that we see ourselves in these vivid epiphanies.”
– Jeff Towns