Adamantine - Couverture souple

Foyle, Naomi

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1906309418 ISBN 13 : 9781906309411

Editeur : Pighog, 2019

Synopsis

In Adamantine, award-winning poet Naomi Foyle demonstrates again her dazzling formal range, and broadens her stubborn commitment to the truths of female experience. Deploying visual poetry, free verse, sonnets, the ballad and spoken word rhythms, the book's opening sequence honours the achievements of outstanding women from Mohawk writer and performer Tekahionwake and Canadian painter Emily Carr to Anglo-Irish revolutionaries Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markievicz; and eulogises unsung heroines including the prematurely deceased writer Emily Givner, the mothers and orators of West Belfast, and Pamela Jean George, a murdered young Aboriginal woman from Foyle's home province of Saskatchewan. Developing Foyle's concern with the Middle East, so evident in her acclaimed second collection The World Cup, from troubled reflections on political violence spring tributes to Palestinian and Israeli prisoners of conscience - and to Arabic poetry. Elsewhere, a vividly imagined conversation between Old Testament wives imbues the collection with a deeper historical resonance, while personal pilgrimages lead the reader from chanteuse Nico's graveyard in Berlin to the mass crematorium of Grenfell Tower. In its riveting combination of theatrical flair and emotional vulnerability, the book's final sequence, The Cancer Breakthrough, recalls the imagistic pyrotechnics of Foyle's PBS Recommended debut collection The Night Pavilion, but also pays homage, not just to the poet's resilience and relentless creativity, but the power of loving community.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

An award-winning British-Canadian poet, essayist, editor, verse dramatist and science fiction novelist, Naomi Foyle has presented her work in venues from Berlin to Babylon, Iraq.

Naomi's poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including Poetry Review, The London Magazine, Washington Square Review, Poetry Ireland Review and The Poetry of Sex (Viking/Penguin); Her debut collection The Night Pavilion, an Autumn 2008 Poetry Book Society Recommendation, was followed by The World Cup and two pamphlets, all from Waterloo Press. Also the editor of A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry (Smokestack Books) and author of five science fiction novels, Naomi Foyle lives in Brighton, UK, and lectures at the University of Chichester. Among her many accolades, for her poetry and essays about Ukraine she received the 2014 Hryhorii Skovoroda Prize

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pighog
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1906309418
• ISBN 13: 9781906309411
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 90
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible