Wild Gods

Engelund, Malene

ISBN 10 : 190885362X ISBN 13 : 9781908853622

Editeur : Valley Press, 2016

Synopsis

The eighteen poems that comprise Malene Engelund's debut pamphlet, The Wild Gods, reveal a distinctly Nordic imagination, punctured with rich colour, shadows and light.

Here are letters, portraits and prayers, composed with an almost painterly precision. Searching and clear-eyed, each poem a compact saga that revives folklore and extends it into the present, Engelund's wild gods take their places between borders: of home and belonging, darkness and dawn, the silenced and the lost.

"Malene Engelund has a lovely liquid way with verbs. Her phrase DNA of flight applies not only to the birds who preside over these poems but to language itself as it flows through them, creating a haunted, Northern Lights habitat where snow, sea and night trace the inner bones of the relationship between every I and every you."
- Ruth Padel

"Malene Engelund s arresting debut leads us into a landscape of snow and silence, of characters submerged and on the brink of madness; I write in black. But against the darkness we find the colours of a painter s palette, of birds making for the sky, of voices refusing to be muted and claiming for themselves a new language."
- Lorraine Mariner

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Malene Engelund was born in Aalborg, Denmark. Her poems have appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Poetry Wales, Magma and the Valley Press anthology Pocket Horizon. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway and is co-editor of the Days of Roses poetry anthologies (2011 and 2013). She lives in Greenwich.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Valley Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 190885362X
• ISBN 13: 9781908853622
• Reliure: Brochure
• Nombre de pages: 36
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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