Seasonal Disturbances (eBook)

Karen McCarthy Woolf (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
80 Seiten
Carcanet (Verlag)
978-1-78410-337-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Second Place Winner of the 2020 Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry. A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Following her groundbreaking 2014 debut An Aviary of Small Birds ('technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak' - Observer), Karen McCarthy Woolf returns with Seasonal Disturbances. Set against a backdrop of ecological and emotional turbulence, these poems are charged yet meditative explorations of nature, the city, and the self. A sinister CEO presides over a dystopian hinterland where private detectives investigate crimes against hollyhocks; Halcyon is discovered as a dead kingfisher, washed up on an Italian beach. Lyrical and inventive, McCarthy Woolf's poems test classic and contemporary forms, from a disrupted zuihitsu that considers her relationship with water, to the landay, golden shovel, and gram of &. As a fifth-generation Londoner and daughter of a Jamaican emigre, McCarthy Woolf makes a variety of linguistic subversions that critique the rhetoric of the British class system. Political as they may be, these poems are not reportage: they aim to inspire what the author describes as an 'activism of the heart, where we connect to and express forces of renewal and love'. Cover Illustration: Nuri R. Melgarejo

Autor

Described in The Poetry Review as 'extraordinarily moving and technically flawless', Karen McCarthy Woolf's celebrated début was a Guardian Book of the Year and  PBS  Recommendation. She has presented her poetry in many forms, from collaborative choreography and radio soundscape to audiovisual installation, in venues around the world, from Mexico City and Singapore to the us and the Caribbean.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2017
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• ISBN-10: 1-78410-337-3 / 1784103373
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78410-337-8 / 9781784103378