Winter Migrants - Couverture souple

Pickard, Tom

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1784102644 ISBN 13 : 9781784102647

Editeur : Carcanet Poetry, 2016

Synopsis

Winter Migrants opens with Tom Pickard's prize-winning sequence Lark & Merlin, an erotic pursuit over the hills and fells of the poet s Northern-English homeland. Stotting clough and gill in sneaping winds, leaping burns by backlit larches, waves of sleek grass skiffing mist ... here, says the poet, the weather is overseer. The borders between body and landscape, desire and object, blur in the mammal heat of pursuit, of a lover, of a self, insatiable and unresolvable. There follows a selection from the Fiends Fell Journals, a haibun or poetry-diary, composed over the decade Pickard lived alone on the wind-blown North Pennines. Short poems dedicated to friends and acerbic, satirical poems lend the second half of Winter Migrants a playful warmth and tonic mischief. As the collection draws to a close, the poems return to the familiar horizon of Solway Firth, the estuary where winter migrants gather in long black lines , and the world, cooled now both inside and out, quells: a curlew gifts its estuary echo; gulls make a confetti flurry above the shoreline; and clouds, once pale and flitting, pour purple and gold, a mercury whisper of tipped-in light.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tom Pickard was born in 1946 in Newcastle. He became friends with the poet Basil Bunting and encouraged his return to writing. In 1963, Pickard founded the Morden Tower readings with international poets such as Allen Ginsberg. Pickard moved to London in 1973 and started writing radio and documentary scripts. His publications include High on the Walls (1968) and Ballad of Jamie Allan (2007), which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Carcanet Poetry
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1784102644
• ISBN 13: 9781784102647
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible