High on Rust: Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Webber, Ray

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910089419 ISBN 13 : 9781910089415

Editeur : Tangent Books, 2016

Synopsis

Ray Webber's remarkable poems speak in a unique voice. It's one that challenges, amuses, inspires and sometimes even scares. It's a voice that always leaves you feeling that you've experienced something out of the ordinary, even something extraordinary. Do the poems express anger? Yes, sometimes. Scepticism? Sure. Are they tender? Surprisingly so. The one quality Ray Webber's poems never exude is bitterness. Sartre's 'Spirit of Seriousness' never infects the work, but that doesn't mean it's not serious. The vile, the stupid, the insane, the ludicrous - many of the hideous aspects of life - are embraced along with the virtuous and the good. His literary influences range from Anna Akhmatova, Charles Bukowski, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Frank O'Hara, ee Cummings, Shakespeare and the King James Bible to the the dark musings of Paul Celan. Utimately his greatest influence is the world he has lived in - the slums of his childhood; unemployment riots; paternal imprisonment; anarchist childminders; Hitler and Mussolini's headkicks; the estates he's seen rise, decay and crumble into pits of anti-social behaviour, and occasional defiance; the cider houses where no-one rules; the fall of Communism; the liberating unzipping of the 1960s; the burst balloons of idealism; social upheaval; broken hearts and broken people; trauma and - most of all - survival.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ray Webber was born in 1923 in Redcliffe, Bristol, of Welsh parents, Charles Webber and Kate Regan. His father was a left-wing activist and his mother a Catholic. The family lived in poverty and Ray had a poor education leaving school at the age of 14. When he was 18 he was conscripted into the army to fight in the Second World War. He left the army in 1946 and it was during his final year in uniform that he began writing poetry. His earliest work was influenced by Shelley, Keats, Byron, Tennyson and the Romantics, culminating in a Dylan Thomas phase extending into the Fifties. He continued studying literature and art in his spare time and became intrigued by the work of T.S. Eliot. Over the years, Webber's work has been recognised by many academics and fellow poets as being of the highest quality, but he has always shunned publicity. He published a booklet in the 1970s but subsequently destroyed all of his work. The poems in this volume have never before been published. They were selected by his friend, the poet and musician Steve Bush.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tangent Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1910089419
• ISBN 13: 9781910089415
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Éditeur: Bush Steve
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible