Way More Than Luck - Couverture souple

Wilkinson, Ben

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1781724253 ISBN 13 : 9781781724255

Editeur : Seren, 2018

Synopsis

From the thumping heartbeat of the distance runner to the roar of football terraces across the decades, Ben Wilkinson's debut confronts the struggles and passions that come to shape a life.

Beginning with an interrogation of experiences of clinical depression and the redemptive power of art and running, the collection centres on a series of vivid character portraits, giving life to some of football's legends. By turns frank, comic, sinister and meditative 'the trouble with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head' these poems uncover the beautiful game's magic and absurdity, hopes and disappointments, as striking metaphors for our everyday dramas. Elsewhere there are tender love poems, political satire and strange dream worlds, in an urgently lyrical book of poems that take many forms and modes of address: pantoum, sonnet, sestina; epistle, confession, dramatic monologue. All are united by a desire to speak with searching clarity about matters of the heart.

Way More Than Luck is a book that shows how pain often comes to define our happiness; how we keep on in a world of chance, uncertainty and change.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ben Wilkinson was born in Staffordshire and now lives in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. He has won numerous awards for his poetry, including the Poetry Business Competition and a 2014 Northern Writers' Award. His latest short collection of poems is For Real. He is a keen distance runner, lifelong Liverpool Football Club fan, and among other things he works as poetry critic for The Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seren
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781724253
• ISBN 13: 9781781724255
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible