Juniper - Couverture souple

O'Brien, Sean

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1915968070 ISBN 13 : 9781915968074

Editeur : Dare-Gale Press, 2024

Synopsis

These poems depict a restless world of journey and movement, of arrivals and departures, greetings and farewells. Soldiers come home from war, old friends reunite. The only stillness is death. The human past is etched into the natural landscape as the living watch and listen to the continuously changing moment they find themselves in, which in turn is pressed into history by the relentless insistence of time: ‘there was before, there will be after, no half-measures.’

‘Sean O’Brien’s work combines an almost documentary realism with mythical patterning. The world capsizes from surface into depth, depth into surface, as if the present tense was a trap-door into a deeper, darker longue durée. His subject is the uneasy truce between past and present, and in Juniper he traces History to its vanishing-point in ordinary lives, in poems that are both richly imagined and true to their people, their times and places. His is a voice that reminds us what poetry can still be and do for a culture.’
Patrick McGuinness

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sean O’Brien is one of the UK's leading poets. His most recent publication is Otherwise, published by  Dare-Gale press in 2023. Embark, was published by Picador in 2022. His chapbook Impasse: for Jules Maigret appeared from Hercules Editions in May 2023. The recipient of numerous awards, including the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes, he is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dare-Gale Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1915968070
• ISBN 13: 9781915968074
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 28
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