Arctic Elegies
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd
Published:24th Nov '22
Should be back in stock very soon
This is a mighty book of Norths: northern geographies, histories, lights; a place of definition, frost and cold. There is an unfaltering Recusant spirit about these poems, a survival through defeat and a sense of underlying permanences. Each poem has an occasion: some of the occasions are personal meetings, conversations, which unlock shared scenes and themes; some are historical in origin, their past often one of early Christian faith or religious conflict. The poems abound in art, in specific lived detail, particulars of landscape, and in a harsh weather which is not unlike time itself in its effect on the living and ageing imagination. Each poem requires a different metre, a different pace; each form is carefully attuned to its occasion.
'This is a poet's book, his mind wide open to the cultures of the world [...] luscious, musical and precise' - Gillian Clarke on 'The Palace of Oblivion'
ISBN: 9781800172630
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72 pages