Two Voices

J.K. Annand's Two Voices projects the man himself, in the solitude of the mountains he loved to climb or in the lonely vigil through the long and eerie watches at sea when he served in naval craft in treacherous waters in the Second World War. As Burns pointed out, nothing makes a poet more productive than solitude, and Annand's long poem, with its changing moods and subtle rhythms, will have a particular appeal to those who share his faculty of withdrawal and his appreciation of the bare peaks and sea's wilderness.