The Hutton Inquiry - Couverture souple

McCabe, Chris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844710742 ISBN 13 : 9781844710744

Editeur : Salt Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

The political events of Summer 2003 is the setting for the main sequence of poems in “The Hutton Inquiry.” The poems move quickly, as scraps of information, piecing together the picture of a summer gone wrong. The emphasis is on speed, association, guesswork – creating a mosaic from the fragmentation of political divide and rule.

The story of the nascent war in Iraq unfolds in “Progress Poems,” a sequence that began as an indictment of false notions of progress, and turned into a melting-pot for harboured cynicisms: from Rupert Murdoch to Tony Blair. Jumbled in numbers from 1-2000, the poems move with the synchronicity and randomness of the internet.

The book opens with “A Taste of Verdigris”, a series of mostly present-tense, lived-in poems. These poems differ from so much contemporary poetry in that they account for the fabric of daily existence before it reaches the point of retelling through the techniques of story. They press with the immediacy of the moment.

“The Smog: London Poems” is a sequence for anyone who has ever experienced the sensation of the outsider, newly arrived in London. “The London Migration Sequence” accounts for the London rookie’s attempts to make ends meet, and to begin to make sense of the metropolis. The final poems in the book are a series of love poems, lighter in touch, including a nod to the French Surrealists. These poems are the secure place from which the books broader experiments can take flight.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Chris McCabe was born in Liverpool in 1977. His poetry collections are The Hutton Inquiry and Zeppelins. He has recorded a CD with The Poetry Archive and written a play Shad Thames, Broken Wharf, which was performed at the London Word Festival and subsequently published by Penned in the Margins in 2010. He works as a Librarian at The Poetry Library, London, and teaches for The Poetry School.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Salt Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1844710742
• ISBN 13: 9781844710744
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible