Monsoon Diary
Monsoon Diary by Joseph Woods, published by Dedalus Press in 2018, is a collection of poetry that spans 94 pages. The poems explore the poet’s personal journey, reflecting on significant life events such as the birth of his daughter and the deaths of his parents. Through these experiences, the work seeks to make sense of the world, capturing a mid-life flight from home and offering new perspectives on both the past and future.
Readers will find that Monsoon Diary often adopts an elegiac tone, revealing a deepening awareness of mortality and the losses that accompany aging. The collection also addresses broader themes, including a nation’s transition from dictatorship to democracy. Notably, the poem “Driving to Delvin” features 84 couplets that create a narrative akin to a road movie, weaving together the book’s diverse themes, fears, and hopes in a celebration of life and forward motion.
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Between the birth of the poet’s daughter and the deaths of his parents, the poems in Monsoon Diary attempt to make sense of the world, from a mid-life flight from home en famille to new perspectives on both the past and the future.
Monsoon Diary strikes an often elegiac tone, betraying a growing awareness of mortality and the many losses that come with age.
But it also bears witness to a country transitioning from dictatorship to democracy, finds the seeds of a new half-crown of sonnets in a line of Catullus, and, in Driving to Delvin, a poem of 84 couplets, breaks out into a kind of road movie of spirited and sometimes random association, bringing all of the book’s many themes and ideas, its fears and hopes, together in a celebration of forward motion, of living itself.
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