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Salvage At Twilight

Dan Burt author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd

Published:31st Oct '19

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The poet - a man of the world in the widest sense - reflects and in reflection relives the intense experiences that shaped him and that have shaped our modern world. Salvage at Twilight ends with 'Deposition', a harrowing elegy in five parts: the beloved endures 'her Nile of pain'; the lover attends as she is treated, the last scene postponed until the two selves are quite differently refined. His editor has written, 'Dan Burt's poetry, like his prose, explores themes unusual in contemporary literature, using a language that is precise, nuanced and mordant. And he risks traditional forms, his sonnets and quatrains mastered and masterful.'

'His language is terse to the point of brutality; the verbs ferocious, often monosyllabic; his core conviction, formed by the history of the twentieth century and a lifetime in a non-literary world, is of 'the curtain falling on the Enlightenment'.' - Elaine Feinstein; 'Full of hard-won wisdom and beautiful lines, it's testament to the transforming power of poetry.' - Suzy Feay, The Independent; 'The writing can hover and dance. It has genuine grace.' - George Szirtes

ISBN: 9781784107918

Dimensions: 216mm x 135mm x 8mm

Weight: unknown

96 pages