Stigmata
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Stigmata is a sequence of fourteen poems that explores various concepts and manifestations of love, both human and divine. The five wounds of Christ is its central symbol, but although the poem is in many senses metaphysical in its meditation on pain and passion, it is also Neo-Modernist in its method, especially in its use of juxtaposition and elliptical syntax. The result is one of Wilmer’s most profound works; restrained and exact in diction, it is both beautiful and moving.
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Stigmata is a sequence of fourteen poems that explores various concepts and manifestations of love, both human and divine. The five wounds of Christ is its central symbol, but although the poem is in many senses metaphysical in its meditation on pain and passion, it is also Neo-Modernist in its method, especially in its use of juxtaposition and elliptical syntax. The result is one of Wilmer’s most profound works; restrained and exact in diction, it is both beautiful and moving.
Published: 5 October 2005
ISBN: 9781905208012
Pages: 26
Clive Wilmer (1945-2025) was a poet and scholar best known for his advocacy of the work of the Victorian artist and critic John Ruskin and of the poet Thom Gunn. He taught for 25 years at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where in 2012 he was made an emeritus fellow in English literature.
Wilmer began publishing poetry in the early 1970s, his first book appearing in 1977. Worple Press published four collections: The Falls (2000), Stigmata (2005), Urban Pastorals (2014) and Passio (2011), his translations of poems by János Pilinszky. His New and Collected Poems (2012) are published by Carcanet. Wilmer’s final book, Architecture & Other Poems, will be published by Worple Press in 2025.
An occasional broadcaster, Wilmer fronted BBC Radio 3’s ‘Poet of the Month’ programmes in the early 1990s and his interviews are published as Poets Talking (Carcanet, 1994).
An obituary by Peter Carpenter is published in the Guardian (8 April 2025).
