plastic - Couverture souple

Rice, Matthew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 180427142X ISBN 13 : 9781804271421

Editeur : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2026

Synopsis

Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in a factory, plastic is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet.

Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis and satire, Bplastic is based on Matthew Rice’s experience working in a plastic moulding factory for ten years. Illustrating alienated twenty-first-century Irish labour in poetic form, plastic engages with the inflictions and implications of a ‘post-industrial’, ‘post-Troubles’ society, all while weaving in depictions of factory work from literature, film and the visual arts.

Time-stamped to highlight the claustrophobia of the worker’s experience, this is a poem about feeling a calling while being submerged in the world of menial labour – making plastic airplane parts by night, making poetry by day, uniting what Jacques Rancière calls the ‘labourers in love with the intellectual nights’ and those ‘intellectuals in love with the toilsome and glorious days of the labouring people.’ plastic’s evocation and lucidity moves with grace through working class realities and hopeful imaginings.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Matthew Rice was born in Belfast. Poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and The Forward Book of Poetry 2022 (Faber). He holds an MA in Poetry from Queen’s University, Belfast, and a PhD from The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s. His debut collection, The Last Weather Observer (Summer Palace Press), was published in 2021 and was included on the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s top ten books of the year.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 180427142X
• ISBN 13: 9781804271421
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Goldtop; n.pederzini@terminaldistribuzione.com ; ; Via Bruno Buozzi, 24/26,; Granarolo dell'Emilia BO,; 40057; Italie