Berlin Bursts

Robert Sheppard author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Shearsman Books

Published:15th Feb '11

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Berlin Bursts cover

These new poems use tense couplets and other 'centrifugal' forms to centre their energies in nodes of impacted attention. They feature territories as dispersed as Sheppard's local City of Culture and the global city of division and political murder of the title poem. The scar of history is drawn across the face of time, as in tragic Riga where we find reflections on artefacts of survival. Yet a series of metapoems brings agency and wonder to the idea of the poem, always seeing the world as well as itself, in perceptual double-takes that tease away at the meaning of the poetic act: "You'll never finish reading/ the poem in the book with reality pulling itself/ inside out before your eyes."

ISBN: 9781848611351

Dimensions: 140mm x 216mm x 5mm

Weight: 131g

94 pages