Turner
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Published:1st Aug '02
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David Dabydeen's 'Turner' is a long narrative poem written in response to J.M.W. Turner's celebrated painting Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead & Dying. Dabydeen's poem focuses on what is hidden in Turner's painting, the submerged head of the drowning African. In inventing a biography and the drowned man's unspoken desires, including the resisted temptation to fabricate an idyllic past, the poem brings into confrontation the wish for renewal and the inescapable stains of history, including the meaning of Turner's painting. 'Turner' was first published in 1994. In addition to 'Turner', this collection includes selections from two earlier books: Slave Song (1984) and Coolie Odyssey (1988).
'A major poem, full of lyricism and compassion, which gracefully shoulders the burden of history and introduces us to voices from the past whose voices we have all inherited' Caryl Phillips 'Magnificent, vivid and original. The best long poem I've read in years. David Dabydeen is one of our finest poets.' Hanif Kureishi
ISBN: 9781900715683
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84 pages