The May Figures - Couverture souple

Preddle, Chris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1913606082 ISBN 13 : 9781913606084

Editeur : Eyewear Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

Figures of history and legend, contemporary figures, the poet’s friends and neighbours, and some goddesses rub shoulders in these poems, which begin with the formation of continents and continue into the present. Many characters speak for themselves, more are spoken about, and there are verse letters to friends. A big sequence starts in the village of Holme in West Yorkshire, comes back often to Jacqueline who ‘came inland’, visits the Stone Age, Europe, Asia, China and Massachusetts, and ends among the may trees of Holme. ‘A poem is a search for values’, and these poems look for ‘mays’ and certainties, thoughtful and moving. The style is allusive, the forms are various, there are puns, assonance, repetition and a profusion of half-rhymes too clever by half. These poems look outward, and reassert the music of poetry. This is Chris Preddle’s third collection.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Chris Preddle has retired from library work, in public libraries and with two childcare charities. He lived for many years in the village of Holme in West Yorkshire, on a windy shoulder of the Pennines. His second collection was Cattle Console Him (2010). He won the first PN Review Prize in 2017, has been shortlisted for the Manchester Poetry Prize (2012), was second in the Strokestown competition (2012), and won the Scintilla competition for shorter poems (2007). His work has appeared in many magazines in Britain and Ireland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Eyewear Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1913606082
• ISBN 13: 9781913606084
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 60
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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