Frisky Ducks & Other Poems - Couverture souple

Relich, Mario

 
9781907676512: Frisky Ducks & Other Poems

Synopsis

Mario Relich Poetry:‘There is nothing provincial about the poems in Mario Relich collection. Local at times, yes, with evocations of the poet’s various home bases, but as the likes of William Carlos Williams and Patrick Kavanagh would remind us, the local is the universal. (…) This poet is of both the Old World and the New, intensely European in his range of cultural references, but also transatlantic, whether evoking family and university life in Montreal or verbally transcribing, as it were, a postcard depicting the Civil War memorial in Hartford, Connecticut, and linking this with that city’s poet Wallace Stevens, himself redolent of European imagination and American experience. (…) It’s chiefly in the poems about birds – one type, of course, is the source of the book’s title – that we witness, in Muriel Spark’s phrase, ’the transfiguration of the commonplace’.(from Tom Hubbard’s Introduction)

Review by Bashabi Fraser‘Mario Relich uses words as the artist uses colours to make the commonplace magical and the abstract meaningful. His poetry has the power and freedom of bird flight, refreshing and adventurous, lightened by his humour and emboldened by his erudition’

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À propos de l?auteur

MARIO RELICH, born in Zagreb, grown up in Montreal, has lived for most of his life in Edinburgh and has been an Associate Lecturer in English Literature and Film Studies at the Open University in Scotland for many years. He Began writing poems in Canada. His poems have been published in various periodicals over the years, and this is his first collection. He is also Secretary of the Poetry Association of Scotland and a member of the executive committee of Scottish PEN.

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