The Blind Roadmaker - Couverture souple

Duhig, Ian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1509809813 ISBN 13 : 9781509809813

Editeur : Picador, 2016

Synopsis

If the starting point for a number of poems in Ian Duhig's richly varied new collection is Sterne's Tristram Shandy, its presiding genius is the great eighteenth-century civil engineer, fiddler and polymath Blind Jack Metcalf - whose life Duhig here celebrates, and from whose example he draws great inspiration. Writing with an almost Burnsian eclecticism, Duhig explores urban poverty, determinism, social justice and the consolations of poetry and music on a journey that takes in everything from a riotous reimagining of Don Juan to the tragedy of Manuel Bravo (the Leeds asylum seeker from Angola who was forced to defend himself in court, and later took his own life). No poet today writes with such a sense of political and social conscience, and The Blind Roadmaker affirms Duhig's belief in poetry as a means of commemorating those who least deserve to be forgotten.

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: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1509809813
• ISBN 13: 9781509809813
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
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• Personne responsable: non disponible