Interference Effects - Couverture souple

Dyer, Claire

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 190974722X ISBN 13 : 9781909747227

Editeur : Two Rivers Press, 2016

Synopsis

Whether focusing in on catching fish off a pier, learning to speak Bird at night school, riding towards inspiration on horseback or thinking about manatees, the poems in Claire Dyer's second collection offer a slantwise look at some of the experiences, both real and imagined, that can shape our lives.

Influenced by Elizabeth Bishop and the Morpho butterfly, the pieces in Interference Effects shift and alter depending on the reader s viewing angle. Infused by the colour blue, they compare a farmer harvesting to a recipe for Victoria sponge; show boys learning to swim as another is buried at sea; tell of a heart that s left at a checkout as a curator s assistant gives hers in for safekeeping.

These pairings search for definition and meaning whilst acknowledging the beauty and strength in never actually being able to capture either.

"Claire Dyer s new collection takes our world of childhood, adulthood, love s end and its renewal and turns it a click or two off kilter. Everything here is thrillingly both itself and something other . Like little translations or ventures into as if , using gently exploratory forms of surrealism that keep one foot on solid ground, the poems in Interference Effects draw the reader into a re-invigorated world of fishy glittering and butterfly glint. Dyer tells us the Chinese character for poem is word temple ; her poems are themselves little temples we enter dusty and over-familiar yet exit more alert to the world around us and our inner weathers." Martyn Crucefix

"This collection flickers with language as quick as the fish that swim in the poems, as the butterfly whose 'light interference' is as real as it is suggestive, as illusory as it is sensuous. Meaning turns in a flick of a word, a phrase, an image, the familiar made strange. Family love, sexual love, grief, are turning silvers in darkness, the other side of the ordinary. In 'On the Pier', haunted by the almost casual mention of a mother lost too soon ('The summer before Mum died Dad took me fishing on the pier') the fish on her plate is surely death itself." Gillian Clarke

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

As well as being a successful published poet and novelist, Claire Dyer teaches creative writing and until recently curated Poets’ Café, Reading’s longest-running poetry platform on behalf of The Poetry Society’s Reading Stanza. She is also a regular Radio Reads contributor on BBC Radio Berkshire.
Her website is www.clairedyer.com

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Two Rivers Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 190974722X
• ISBN 13: 9781909747227
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible