Rod Mengham

Grimspound and Inhabiting Art

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Rod Mengham's new offering comprises two complementary halves: a poetic meditation on a place (the Bronze Age site of Grimspound on Dartmoor); and a series of short essays on different cultural habitats.Grimspound is a four-part work combining prose and verse, composed on site over the course of ten years. It combines a 'wild analysis' of Hound of the Baskervilles (whose climactic scene takes place at Grimspound), a portrait of the Victorian excavator Sabine Baring-Gould, and a series of poems that draw on the Russian linguist Aharon Dolgopolsky's experimental Nostratic Dictionary.Inhabiting Art gathers essays on cultural history in relation… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78410-591-4
EAN: 9781784105914
Produktnummer: 29481971
Verlag: Carcanet
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'271 KB

Über den Autor

Rod Mengham's published poetry includes Chance of a Storm (Carcanet, 2015), Unsung: New and Selected Poems (Salt, 2001), Parley and Skirmishes (Ars Cameralis, 2007) and with Marc Atkins a book of texts and film stills, Still Moving (Veer, 2014). He has published monographs and edited collections of essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, violence and avant-garde art, the 1940s, and contemporary poetry. He has co-edited the anthologies Altered State: The New Polish Poetry (2003) and Vanishing Points: New Modernist Poems (2005). His translations include Andrzej Sosnowski's Speedometry (Contraband, 2014).