Poetry and Psychoanalysis: the Opening of the Field: by David Shaddock, Oxford, Routledge, 2020, 194 pp., £28.99 (pb), ISBN: 978-0415699013.

For Shaddock, to use a concept from Thomas Ogden amongst others "Campo dei Fiori" exists in the "third" position - 'it emerges as a new term between the poet's witnessing and the world's sorrow'. In the opening chapter of I Poetry and Psychoanalysis i David Shaddock is clear that he wants ' ... to extend our understanding of the therapy process by looking at it through the lens of poetics' (p. 4). Shaddock makes use of this thinking in his compelling chapter, 'Standing against silence: Czeslaw Milosz, Denise Levertov and poetry of witness'. Shaddock quotes Milosz on the tensions involved in the poetry of witness where the poet has to ' ... remain aware of the weight of fact without yielding to the temptation to become only a reporter' (p. 41-42). [Extracted from the article]