Departure Lounge
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cinnamon Press
Published:2nd Apr '18
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Departure Lounge returns to the theme of mortality with characteristic insight and honesty. Concerned not only with how we characterise and cope with death, but with a sense of urgency for all that is being lost, culturally or ecologically, this is deeply intelligent collection. Accessible, yet exacting; lyrical, but without a wasted word, these poems unspool in single, unassailable sentences that ring with truth.
"... these small, specific celebrations which make 'Departure Lounge' less like a dirge than a jazz album. There is something of the book of Ecclesiastes in the overall tone: eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die. Yet Barnie's poetry does not advocate hedonism. Rather, he suggests we care for the earth, watch out for our neighbors, and seek out beauty, as he himself has done. 'Poets,' he writes, seek 'a handful of words they hope will shine.'" - Maria Apichella, New Welsh Review, Review 19, February, 2019
ISBN: 9781788640091
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