The Abandoned Settlements
Shortlisted for the 2017 T. S. Eliot PrizePBS Autumn RecommendationThe poems in James Sheard's remarkable third book are about love and leaving, of how the rift of departure brings on a kind of haunting - of the people involved and the places where they lived - an emotional trace of departed lives and loves. This is what these poems are: the scars of separation, the spoors of desire. Sheard writes powerfully about loss, about how the vestiges of significance, of sensual heat, are retained by structures - in ghost towns, war-zones, deserted villages or resorts - but also by the human body and memory: 'for love exists, and then is ruined, and t…
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- ISBN: 978-1-910702-47-5
- EAN: 9781910702475
- Produktnummer: 20710399
- Verlag: Vintage Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 64 S.
- Masse: H13.2 cm x B19.8 cm x D0.9 cm 84 g
- Gewicht: 84
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
James Sheard was born in Cyprus in 1962, and spent his childhood abroad, mainly in Singapore and Germany. As an adult, he spent periods living in Hamburg and Helsinki. His debut collection, Scattering Eva, was shortlisted for the 2005 Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Glen Dimplex Award for Poetry. Dammtor was published in 2010. He lives in mid-Wales and lectures at Keele University.
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