The Return Room - Couverture rigide

Rodgers, W.R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0856408611 ISBN 13 : 9780856408618

Editeur : Blackstaff Press Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

In June 1955 artist Gerard Dillon visited the poet W.R. Rodgers, a contemporary of Louis MacNeice and W.H. Auden, at his farmhouse in Suffolk. Rodgers was working on the script of his radio play, The Return Room. As Rodgers wrote, Dillon sang and drew, and together they shared memories of their boyhood in 1920s Belfast. It was a magical collaboration; Rodgers later said, `as I wrote the script, I found it helpful to have Gerard Dillon's voice in my mind.' The Return Room - Rodgers's answer to Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood and Beckett's All that Fall - was transmitted in December 1955 and hailed as one of the finest radio broadcasts ever produced in Ireland. This limited edition not only brings the entire script of The Return Room into print for the first time, but also reproduces the illustrations that Dillon drew to accompany the script - many never seen before. The edition also includes a CD of the original 1955 recording of the play in which Rodgers takes the part of the narrator and Dillon performs traditional Belfast songs such as 'My Lagan Love'. Evocative, lyrical and richly textured, with a foreword by Paul Muldoon, The Return Room creates a clear-eyed, affectionate and beguiling portrait of Belfast city.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

W.R. Rodgers was born in 1909 in east Belfast. In 1931 he graduated with a BA in English Literature from Queen's University Belfast before training as a Presbyterian minister. In 1935 he became minister at Cloveneden church in Loughgall, County Armagh. It was during this period that Rodgers began writing poetry; his first full-length collection, Awake! And Other Poems, followed in 1941. In 1946 he took up a scriptwriter post for the BBC in London, where he worked until 1952, the year in which he published his second collection, Europa and the Bull and Other Poems. In 1955, his radio play The Return Room was broadcast, and was quickly hailed as one of the finest radio broadcasts ever produced in Ireland. Rodgers died in 1969 and is buried in Loughgall. Gerard Dillon was born just off the Falls Road, Belfast, in 1916. He left school at fourteen and worked as a house painter for seven years, mostly in London. Although he was largely self-taught as an artist, he did attend Belfast College of Art for a short time. He had his first solo exhibition in Dublin in 1942 but was unable to make his living as an artist and shortly after returned to London to work on the demolition gangs. After World War 2, he became more successful as an artist. He died in 1969. His work illustrates The Return Room, a radio play by Irish poet W.R. Rodgers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blackstaff Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0856408611
• ISBN 13: 9780856408618
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Dillon Gerard
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible