An English Nazareth - Couverture souple

Crucefix, Martyn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1900564149 ISBN 13 : 9781900564144

Editeur : Enitharmon Press, 2004

Synopsis

Impelled by a sense that our personal, social and corporate behaviours grow ever more infantile, these are poems that scrutinise the child, the child-like and the childish. Writing with humour, candour and disarming precision, Crucefix's fourth collection reflects the innocence and distress of modern childhood, its often bewildering transitions into the adult world where egotism, anger and acquisitiveness wait. "An English Nazareth" calls up an extraordinary cast of real and fictional characters - Alexander von Humboldt, Mr Marvel, Lady Richeldis of Walsingham, Wimbledon referee Alan Mills, Radovan Karadzic, the Cleverly boy - and in doing so these poems further extend the formal and tonal range of a writer whose work confronts us with the truth 'of innocence already dead, the book's sole intent to show it had to happen.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Martyn Crucefix Martyn Crucefix was born in Wiltshire and read English at Lancaster and Oxford. He has previously won both an Eric Gregory award and a Hawthornden Fellowship. His publications include Beneath Tremendous Rain (Enitharmon, 1990) and At the Mountjoy Hotel (Enitharmon, 1993). He has been a member of The Poetry Society's General Council and is a founder member of the poetry performance group, ShadoWork. He currently lives and teaches in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Enitharmon Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1900564149
• ISBN 13: 9781900564144
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible