Downpour: Poems - Couverture souple

Valentine, Ruth

 
9780993149085: Downpour: Poems
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0993149081 ISBN 13 : 9780993149085
Editeur : Smokestack Books, 2016

Synopsis


Ruth Valentine has worked as an undertaker and as a celebrant at secular funerals. In this new collection she draws on her experiences to compose an extended meditation on dying and death, its emotional grammar and its painful but necessary rituals. Bleak and brave, serious and sad, Downpour is an unflinching study of the physical realities of dying. Bodies are prepared for burial, coffin lids are closed, and scattered ashes sail downriver. An old man s coffin enters the furnace, his memories becoming part of the wider world. The invisible dead joy-ride through London at night and the disinterred dead stir in Bosnia and Baghdad. Valentine explores the geography of death hospital corridors and waiting rooms, winter tides, tearful winds and rain-swept cemeteries and considers the strangers doctors, mortuary assistants and undertakers who must escort us towards oblivion, conscious of their own death and your death, / the death of the planet and the death of hope .

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À propos de l'auteur

For many years Ruth Valentine s worked with refugees in London. Her poetry collections include The Announced (2009) and On the Saltmarsh (2012). She has also published Asylum, Hospital, Haven (1996) and a novel, The Jeweller s Skin (2013). She lives in Tottenham, London.

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Éditeur
Smokestack Books
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0993149081
ISBN 13 
9780993149085
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
64
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