What the Sea Gives - Couverture souple

Riach, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1804253871 ISBN 13 : 9781804253878

Editeur : Luath Press Ltd, 2026

Synopsis

Fake news rules the airwaves, AI fills the skies, where’s the information you can trust? Alan Riach’s new collection of poems provides two answers: only in the work of art, whether poem, painting, musical composition, or else in the object of your closest attention, a lover, close family, friends. These gifts you find or dive for, sometimes simply walking on the beach, sometimes swimming deep, into the abyss. There are new discoveries, particular points that make co-ordination possible, and even, maybe, progress. But each of these moments of focus are on the edge, a coastline between land and sea, vulnerable and open to tide or storm, landslide or hurricane, the rising swamp of apathy, the tornado of mob populism. Art can be hijacked. Friends can be seduced. What the Sea Gives is perfect for not only lovers of poetry but any readers who value the importance of art and the connection it provides us.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alan Riach is a poet and teacher. Born in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, in 1957, he studied English literature at Cambridge University from 1976 to 1979 and completed his PhD in the Department of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University in 1986. His academic career has included positions as a research fellow, lecturer, Associate Professor and Pro-Dean in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and he has given scholarly lectures, keynote addresses and public talks and poetry readings at universities, festivals and other venues internationally. He has introduced and taught Scottish and other literatures in four continents and two hemispheres, from Bengal to Bucharest, from Singapore to Montenegro, the USA, Australia, China, France, Poland and Spain.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Luath Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1804253871
• ISBN 13: 9781804253878
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 136
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible