An Arbitrary Light Bulb - Couverture souple

Duhig, Ian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1035033208 ISBN 13 : 9781035033201

Editeur : Picador, 2024

Synopsis

A Poetry Book Society Choice

An Arbitrary Light Bulb is Ian Duhig's most personal collection of poems to date. It takes its title from the most common type of household bulb - yet one whose name is virtually unknown, like many people these poems celebrate.

Duhig finds in the arbitrary an image for the randomness of inspiration and of life, haunted here by deaths of family and friends. He laments the lost but also responds to the glories of our existence, especially among the overlooked, with humour, technical variety and contagious pleasure.

Starting out from 'contrary Leeds', his home for half a century, Duhig's poems roam widely through history, art-forms, loves and injustices, fired by the desire to share it all with his readers: knowledge, joy, anger and wonder.

'The most original poet of his generation' Carol Ann Duffy, Guardian

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ian Duhig worked with homeless people for fifteen years before becoming a writer and he is still actively involved with minority and marginalised groups on artistic projects. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Cholmondeley Award recipient, Duhig has won the Forward Best Poem Prize once, the National Poetry Competition twice and been shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize four times. He lives in Leeds with his wife Jane.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1035033208
• ISBN 13: 9781035033201
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible