‘Stephen Sunderland’s bravely emotional and deeply original work brings a searching eye to the revelations of form and content as they reveal one another only to veer apart and, further down a forgotten road, coincide. This is light and text, and light as text, this is eye to I movement in a poetics of memory, this is in the blending of what is not: a travelling stillness that undoes time. The grain of film captures a granular trace of motion, images teetering between a flicker of childhood and its fearful disappearance and, in the movement of the eyes, the reader is drawn into rhythmic therapy while the poem’s deeper magic reaches other levels of consciousness. Sunderland innovatively expresses the pain of memories that were never made but in their absence exert a traumatic rupture; a space of gradual discovery where ‘Hearse follows ice cream van’ and ‘in the veins of time’ we find ‘new material to shape’. It is rare to find visual poetry so attuned to the psychological interactions of personal understanding(s) with the phenomenology of time, all whilst carrying the reader towards their own parallel encounters with, and as, movement. In new ways to be moved by poetry, Eye Movement brings an experimental intelligence to the often vapid claims for healing in poetry. Here, in these richly haunting and often dazzling turns of language and visuality – healing becomes its own unfinished movement, not in answers or platitudes, but in the synapse & sign-lapse of always passing: ‘a song always present’. – David Spittle, author of Rubbles, Decomposing Robert, How Eyes Rest