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The Silence of Melting
Fragments from a Dreamscape
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The Silence of Melting
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Narrado por:
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Alan Munro
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Derek Oldfield
Memory is slipping, fragments of life dissolve into dream and silence.
In Derek Oldfield’s The Silence of Melting, a restless speaker moves across moors, cliff-top benches, hospital wards, and Tangier avenues, collecting small, stubborn moments: a bird at a frost-edged window, a mint-crystal table under jasmine petals, a lamppost that leans awkwardly.
Each lyric tries to name what’s fading—love, grief, and the outline of a self—using plain, uncanny images and spare, urgent lines. Interleaved throughout are Derek’s own photographs and illustrations, turning the collection into a visual as well as verbal archive. If these fragments fail to hold, memory thins and identity blurs into emptiness; the poems make that risk immediate and intimate.
For listeners who like Simon Armitage’s clear lyricism and visual-driven collections, Oldfield offers a debut that feels domestic, strange, and quietly urgent. Can the careful keeping of small things—image by image, line by line—rebuild a life that is already starting to dissolve?
©2026 Derek Oldfield (P)2026 Derek Oldfield
