Road Trip - Couverture souple

Thompson, Marvin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 184523460X ISBN 13 : 9781845234607

Editeur : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

Road Trip is a striking first collection by a poet with illuminating and entertaining stories to tell and an accomplished craft in using both traditional and contemporary forms in telling them. As a poet of Jamaican heritage, born and raised in north London and now working as a teacher, father of mixed race children, living in south Wales, Marvin Thompson brings together all those passages of place and time in fresh and revealing ways. He explores the underbelly of race and empire in uncovering and inventing stories of his father's time in the British army. He writes with feeling of the post-industrial landscape of Wales and wonders whether this is a place he can bring up his children -- though one should never assume that any of Thompson's poems are factually true. He uses sonnet, adapted villanelle and sestina sequences to tell utterly contemporary stories. Thompson has a refreshing, curious and honest eye that transforms and illuminates the everyday into something special and unique, but also a convincing vision of possibility and even of the uplifting.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Marvin Thompson was born in London to Jamaican parents and now teaches English in mountainous south Wales. He has an MA in Creative Writing and was one of three poets selected by Nine Arches Press for the Primers 2 mentoring scheme.  In 2019, his magical-realist war poem was submitted by Long Poem Magazine for the Forward Prize for Best Poem.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 184523460X
• ISBN 13: 9781845234607
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 56
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible