Matthew Sweeney

My Life as a Painter

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Matthew Sweeney's palette in My Life as a Painter - his twelfth collection - features a wild mix of birds and animals: lizards, snakes, rats, camels, donkeys, feral cats, dogs and owls. One dog transmits telepathic requests for the food he wants, and there's a parrot who speaks as ambassador for the bird world. Sweeney's canvas here is the transhuman: where boundaries between human and non-human can't be fixed, dreams turn into torments, secrets stay hidden, strange communiqués remain unclear, and the natural weirdness of his native Donegal verges on the surreal. There are poems ostensibly about art, artists and filmmaking which are as much p… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78037-415-4
EAN: 9781780374154
Produktnummer: 27215641
Verlag: Bloodaxe Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 90 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 192 KB

Über den Autor

Matthew Sweeney was born in Co. Donegal, and lived in London from 1973 until the late 90s. After living in Berlin and Timisoara for some years, he returned to Ireland and now lives in Cork. His books include two collections from Secker; five books from Cape: The Bridal Suite (1997), A Smell of Fish (2000), Selected Poems (2002), Sanctuary (2004), Black Moon (2007); and three from Bloodaxe, Horse Music (2013), Inquisition Lane (2015) and My Life as a Painter (2018). Black Moon was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award. Horse Music, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, won the inaugural Pigott Poetry Prize in association with Listowel Writers' Week . He is a member of Aosdána.