How I Learned to Sing - Couverture souple

Robinson, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0957172265 ISBN 13 : 9780957172265

Editeur : Smokestack Books, 2013

Synopsis

How I Learned to Sing is Mark Robinson s first collection this century. A senior job at the Arts Council meant that he did not send his poems out for over a decade, in case of potential conflicts of interest. Now he returns with a series of ambitious new poems alongside the best of his work from the last 25 years. How I Learned to Sing is a book about the industrial and cultural transformation of the North of England from the Miners Strike to the Big Society, about gain and loss and change, rootedness and flight, a series of bewildered elegies for people, times and places. Some poems argue with themselves, others with society or with other poets. Some attend to the domestic and the personal, some to the political and the public. Variously tender, angry, surreal and grave, keening, hollering, ranting, whispering and singing, Robinson is an allusive and richly entertaining writer, exploring how here and now make two halves of nowhere , and wondering why of many parallel worlds / I choose this one.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mark Robinson was born in Preston in 1964. A founder editor of Scratch magazine and Mudfog Press, he has worked as a vegetarian chef, a literature development worker and a writer-in-residence in prison. He spent ten years in senior management at Northern Arts and Arts Council England, including five years as Executive Director, North East. His previous books include The Horse Burning Park (Stride 1994), Gaps Between Hills (Scratch, 1996), Half A Mind (Flambard, 1998), and Balkan Exchange (Arc, 2008). He lives in Stockton, where he runs the arts-consultancy Thinking Practice.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Smokestack Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0957172265
• ISBN 13: 9780957172265
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
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