Mirror and Stone

The great Renaissance artist, Michelangelo Buonarotti, il divino, is renowned for his many artistic masterpieces. It is less known that he wrote over 300 poems, many of them expressing his profound feelings, beliefs and conflicts about art and life. Through original poems, translations and drawings, the poet Caroline Maldonado and artist, Garry Kennard, offer a personal response in homage to Michelangelo’s visual and written work.

                The poems and drawings do a truly remarkable job in capturing the essence of late Michelangelo.

                                                  Professor Martin Kemp.                                                   Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, Trinity College, Oxford

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This small but eloquent book is marked by lines of grace, dignity and delight.

Sasha Dugdale, poet and translator

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An extraordinary feat of poetic and visual empathy.

                                                      Ruth Valentine.                                                        Poet

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One of the achievements in the beautifully realised book is how through a variety of forms Caroline Maldonado’s cool, thoughtful poems, gradually build a multi-dimensional picture of the psychology of one of the greatest artists of all time. Michelangelo’s creations, so tensioned with life, are shown in stark contrast to the artist himself, who emerges human but as constrained as a living statue.

Richard Price, author of Late Gifts.

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Copies of the book are £10 plus £3.00 p&p.  Please order from Garry Kennard’s email addresses below.