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Informationen zum Autor John Glenday’s first collection, The Apple Ghost won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and his second, Undark, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Grain Picador, 2009), also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, was shortlisted for both the Ted Hughes Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. His fourth collection The Golden Mean , also published by Picador, was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year and won the 2015 Roehampton Poetry Prize. Klappentext After the success of Grain - shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize - John Glenday returns with The Golden Mean . Glenday's mastery of the short translucent lyric and his unashamed and direct engagement with matters of the spirit, love, human nature and physical law, means he can sometimes read as a Spanish or East European poet in immaculate translation. Yet Glenday's voice is also local and intimate, and his poetry - for all its apparently weightless and aerodynamic grace - is also playful, experimental and often highly surreal. The Golden Mean takes an elemental focus on the properties of light, air, water and stone; the cycles of day and night; the nature of name and text, memory and ghost; but from these deceptively simple themes, Glenday again and again conjures poetry of immense nuance and sophistication, and of immaculately judged proportion and weight. The Golden Mean shows one of our greatest poetic craftsmen at the very height of his powers. John Glenday was born in Broughty Ferry in 1952. His first collection , The Apple Ghost , won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and his second, Undark , was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Grain was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Ted Hughes Award. The new collection from Griffin Poetry Prize-shortlisted poet John Glenday. Zusammenfassung The new collection from Griffin Poetry Prize-shortlisted poet John Glenday....
