The Butterfly Hotel - Couverture souple

Robinson, Roger

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845232194 ISBN 13 : 9781845232191

Editeur : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Roger Robinson writes from a place somewhere between Trinidad and Brixton, an insider/outsider vantage point that leads him to see a state of alienation and unbelonging in Black British London that is perhaps no longer so visible to those who have no other world. Nor can his Trinidad sink into a taken-for-granted familiarity. Its changing reality is all too evident to the periodic returnee, who is conscious of both his growing difference and the fragility of his memories of the world he has known. But these are far from bleak and alienated poems. The very fear of loss generates a drive to recreate the remembered world in all its richness, humour and sensuality. And though the world of the global economy is one that has eroded roots and communities as well as borders, Roger Robinson s poems display a faith in a human capacity for regeneration, of shaping new concepts of home.

Linking and deepening this exploration of this tension between tenacity and fragility is a series of poems that create the world of the butterfly as imagined from within and as observed from without, as metaphor that works at many levels. In moving, pared-down lyrics, expansive prose poems, witty ballads and even a prayer, Roger Robinson s poems are marked by an engagement with the sounds and rhythmic resources of language drawn from both Trinidad and Britain.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Roger Robinson is a writer and spoken word performer. He numerous spoken word albums and is the author of several books, including "Adventures in 3D" and "Suckle," which won the Peoples Book Prize in 2009.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845232194
• ISBN 13: 9781845232191
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 72
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible