Imperium - Couverture souple

Davies, Hilary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 190056419X ISBN 13 : 9781900564199

Editeur : Enitharmon Press, 2005

Synopsis

"Imperium" opens with a high seriousness rare in contemporary poetry. Seven 'sacraments' - meditations on those moments at which the sacred can still touch our lives - are followed by nineteen sonnets dedicated to the 'dismembered spirit' of the poet's father. But the collection is dominated by the title poem, a fine successor to the historical sequences which distinguished Hilary Davies' last collection, "In a Valley of This Restless Mind". Using a range of voices and perspectives, she creates a narrative of the Napoleonic Wars, taking us from Chatham Docks to Aboukir, from a Glamorgan foundry to Trafalgar. Here and in the book's final sequence, 'Southwark', which swings between a prehistoric 'wattenmeer' and the London of 1958, then back to Roman times via a wonderfully riotous Elizabethan South Bank, Davies satisfies us both emotionally and intellectually, drawing from her historical sources a rich, invigorating music.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Hilary Davies was born in London of Anglo-Welsh parents. A Hawthornden fellow, Hilary Davies won the prestigious Eric Gregory Award for Young Poets and the Cheltenham/TLA poetry competition, and co-edited the poetry magazine ARGO for ten years. She read French and German at Oxford and is currently Head of Languages at St. Paul's Girls' School.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Enitharmon Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 190056419X
• ISBN 13: 9781900564199
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible