Dying Scarlet - Couverture souple

Bowling, Tim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 088971164X ISBN 13 : 9780889711648

Editeur : Nightwood Editions, 1997

Synopsis

In a letter to his brothers in 1818, John Keats remarked on a curious expression in vogue among his friends: they call drinking deep dying scarlet. The poems in this collection, inspired by Keats' misspelling of dyeing, explore the ways in which we drink deep from life, searching for beauty and passion despite a melancholy awareness of our own mortality.

Poised between praise and lamentation, Dying Scarlet moves from the experiences of the poet's grandfather in the trenches of World War One, to the fate of an obscure English poet in the Elizabethan age, to the present-day journey of a sockeye salmon; from the Russia of Anna Akhmatova to the Manitoba of Margaret Laurence. Autumnal and contemplative, these are poems of love, of memory, of home, of dying - and, most profoundly, of life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Tim Bowling has published numerous poetry collections, including Low Water Slack; Dying Scarlet (winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry); Darkness and Silence (winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry); The Witness Ghost and The Memory Orchard (both nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award); and his Selected Poems (winner of the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize). Bowling's work in poetry and prose has been honoured with two Canadian Authors Association Awards; two Writers Trust of Canada nominations; a Guggenheim Fellowship; five Alberta Book Awards; the Acorn-Plantos People's Poetry Award; and a Roderick Haig Brown Award nomination. Bowling served as the 2015 Canadian judge for the Griffin International Poetry Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nightwood Editions
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 088971164X
• ISBN 13: 9780889711648
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
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