The Giddings - Couverture souple

Greening, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1869848284 ISBN 13 : 9781869848286

Editeur : Mica Press, 2021

Synopsis

An unnamed traveller is distracted from his business trip by a sign 'To the Giddings'. He sets off walking through the Huntingdonshire landscape, with its Civil War associations and modern military bases, past wind turbines and fragments of ancient woodland, the trees providing a commentary in a variety of verse forms - lyrical, sardonic, admonitory. But it turns out that he is also walking through time and, after a powerful encounter with Nicholas Ferrar in 17th-century Little Gidding, towards a mysterious metamorphosis. In the tradition of The Pilgrim's Progress, and owing something to Ted Hughes's Gaudete, this ingenious and musical interweaving of verse and prose continues John Greening's earlier series of long 'dream poems'. Composed before the pandemic, The Giddings still tells a highly relevant story about a search for spiritual meaning and the power of nature in dark times.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Greening is a poet, critic and playwright. Born in 1954 in Chiswick, he was brought up near Heathrow Airport and attended university at Swansea, Mannheim and Exeter. His poetry has been awarded the Bridport Prize, the TLS Centenary Prize, the Arvon Prize and a Cholmondeley Award. There have been over twenty collections since his debut in 1982. He has published many studies of poets and poetry, and has edited Geoffrey Grigson and Edmund Blunden along with several anthologies. He has been a regular reviewer of poetry, especially for The Poetry Review and the Times Literary Supplement (the collected reviews and essays, Vapour Trails, have just appeared) and for twelve years was one of the judges for the Eric Gregory Awards. He has taught in Upper Egypt, New Jersey and Cambridgeshire and was until recently the RLF Writing Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. This year sees publication of his edition of Iain Crichton Smith and a major anthology of country house poems Hollow Palaces. - co-edited with Kevin Gardner who is currently preparing John Greening's new Selected Poems. He is married, with two daughters. For further details see his website www.johngreening.co.uk or visit John Greening (poet) - Wikipedia

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mica Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1869848284
• ISBN 13: 9781869848286
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 36
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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