Tilt

Informationen zum Autor Jean Sprackland Klappentext Jean Sprackland's third collection describes a world in free-fall. Chaos and calamity are at our shoulder, in the shape of fire and flood, ice-storm and hurricane; trains stand still, zoos are abandoned, migrating birds lose their way - all surfaces are unreliable, all territories unmapped. These are poems that explore the ambivalence and dark unease of slippage and collapse, but they also carry a powerful sense of the miraculous made manifest amongst the ordinary: the mating of natterjack toads, ice on the beach ('dream stuff, with its own internal acoustic') or 'the fund of life' in a used contraceptive. Bracken may run wild across the planet 'waiting for the moment/to pounce on the accident/of the discarded match' but there are also the significant wonders of children and the natural beauty of the world they've inherited. Tilt is a collection of raw, distressed and beautiful poems, a hymn to the remarkable survival of things in the face of threat - for every degradation an epiphany, for every drowning a birth. Zusammenfassung These are poems that explore the ambivalence and dark unease of slippage and collapse, but they also carry a powerful sense of the miraculous made manifest amongst the ordinary: the mating of natterjack toads, ice on the beach ('dream stuff, with its own internal acoustic') or 'the fund of life' in a used contraceptive.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jean Sprackland, Sprackland Jean
• Edition: JONATHAN CAPE
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 04.10.2007
• EAN: 9780224080866
• ISBN: 978-0-224-08086-6
• Pages: 64
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 7 mm
• Thème: Cape Poetry
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets