Map and Atlas Ibrahim Ahmidan ‘Notre Dame de Port Blanc’

‘Notre Dame de Port Blanc’

selling his paintings for liquor in North Shields hostelries

and should we stay alive

Bronze light as though everything was free

they conjure relationships and exchanges

Map and Atlas Ibrahim Ahmidan ‘Notre Dame de Port Blanc’"Joan McBreens Map and Atlas comes to us from a confluence of two great rivers; two streams of thought, the one private, the other public. Her map work has been achieved through observation and memory, through a restlessness in nature and clear headed observations made through windows flung open. Here is a poet widely travelled, from Omey to Wellington, but with the lens constantly looking inward: The senses are not visionary and we ask neither more