Through a lifetime of obsessive writing, Christopher E Ellington has learned the seminal place "words" occupy, in our world. In Ziggurat Filter, what may well be his final collection, the hoary theme of "the magic word", for the good or for the bad, is shot through prism of existentialism. Insoluble lives, brought to heel by government or peer group...resurrected to superior form, unforgiving. Words, turning minds unwillingly, or speaking one's...