Insistence - Couverture souple

Darcy, Ailbhe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1780370784 ISBN 13 : 9781780370781

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

Wales Book of the Year Award 2019 

Winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Award (Wales Book of the Year Awards) 

Winner of the Pigott Poetry Prize 2019 in association with Listowel Writers' Week

Shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2019 and the T.S. Eliot Prize 2018

A new child should mean new hope. But what if that’s no longer so? Ailbhe Darcy’s second collection unfolds in an intimate world, in which the words home and love dominate. But the private world is threatened by a public one. Written in the American Rust Belt, in an era of climate change and upheaval, Insistence takes stock of the parent’s responsibility to her child, the poet’s responsibility to the reader, and the vulnerability of the person in the face of global crisis.

In a long poem, Darcy revisits Inger Christensen’s 1981 alphabet, a work which expresses the heart-sickening persistence and proliferation of beauty after Hiroshima. In Darcy’s ‘Alphabet', the spiralling form takes over, insisting on hope. But this is a doubtful sort of hope: hope for life on earth, not necessarily human life. Stink bugs work their way across America, cockroaches waltz, and quixotically-named mushrooms rise from the earth in this flirtatious but volatile collection.

Described by David Wheatley as ‘boldly overhauling the received categories of the Irish poem’ with ‘cunning and humour’, Ailbhe Darcy’s poems interrogate cosmopolitanism as much as they do rootedness, love as much as grief.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ailbhe Darcy was born in Dublin in 1981 and brought up there. She studied for her PhD and MFA at the University of Notre Dame in the US, and taught there and at the University of Münster in Germany. She is now a lecturer in creative writing at Cardiff University. She has published her poetry in Ireland, Britain and the US. Selections of her work are included in the Bloodaxe anthologies Identity Parade and Voice Recognition, and in her pamphlet A Fictional Dress (tall-lighthouse, 2009). Imaginary Menagerie (Bloodaxe Books, 2011), her first book-length collection, was shortlisted for Ireland's dlr Strong Award at Poetry Now / Mountains to Sea. A collaboration with S.J. Fowler, Subcritical Texts, was published by Gorse in 2017. Her second collection, Insistence, was published by Bloodaxe in 2018 and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2018 and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2019. It won the won the Pigott Poetry Prize 2019 in association with Listowel Writers' Week, Ireland's largest poetry prize. It also won theRoland Mathias Poetry Award, the English language poetry category of the Wales Book of the Year Awards, and went on to be awarded the overall prize, Wales Book of the Year 2019. 

In February 2020 Ailbhe Darcy presented a half-hour Radio 4 feature on Inger Christensen's book-length poem alphabet, the work which Ailbhe pays homage to in the final sequence of her second collection Insistence.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1780370784
• ISBN 13: 9781780370781
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible