Inmates

Sean Borodale author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:24th Sep '20

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Inmates cover

A remarkably original young British poet- chosen as one of the most recent decade's Next Generation Poets - alongside Adam Foulds, Helen Mort and Kate Tempest.

The poems of Inmates stage encounters with insects at sites and moments of their refuge, torpor, hatching or fighting, of traversing a floor in the night or climbing a wall, of their death and decay – all in and around the house of the writer, with whom they are sharing time, as fellow inmates.

The poems of Inmates stage encounters with insects at sites and moments of their refuge, torpor, hatching or fighting, of traversing a floor in the night or climbing a wall, of their death and decay – all in and around the house of the writer, with whom they are sharing time, as fellow inmates.

There is an urgency to these poems, emerging from the instant of their writing, and the close attention Borodale brings to his observation of the natural world results in poems of real intensity. Inmates is an attempt to co-exist with the natural world – examining it, intimately, at the edge of language itself, where the human voice begins to break apart.

Borodale's writing offers both passport and revelation; his subjects are often close to death, or decay... In poems as finely balanced and perilous as watercolour paintings, he builds a world of threat, yet also with reverence for the tones and form of the most vulnerable. -- Martyn Halsall * Church Times *
Extraordinary...Every page, nearly every stanza of this collection bears such treasures. * Harvard Review *

ISBN: 9781787331792

Dimensions: 198mm x 133mm x 8mm

Weight: 102g

80 pages