What Planet

Miriam Gamble (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

80 Seiten

2019
Bloodaxe Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78037-484-0 (ISBN)

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The poems in Miriam Gamble’s third collection journey through scenes and landscapes at once of the world and of the mind. By turns uncanny, dark, poignant and uproarious, What Planet sets individuality of perception and inventiveness of memory against fixed certainties, probing chaos in a post-truth world. Winner of the 2020 Pigott Poetry Prize

The poems in Miriam Gamble’s third collection journey surreally through scenes and landscapes at once of the world and of the mind, finding little, as they go, that 'can be claimed self-evident'. By turns uncanny, dark, poignant and uproarious, What Planet sets the individuality of perception and the inventiveness of memory against fixed certainties, probing chaos and madness in a post-truth world. Rhythmically propulsive and dizzyingly inter-connective, Gamble’s new work is as formally adventurous as it is conceptually distinctive, stretching syntax, jumbling the solid and spectral, crossing borders of time and space. Yet this is also a collection pained by loss, and passionate to connect with a life’s 'vacated' corners – even if the act of remembering is as much creation as recovery. Winner of the 2020 Pigott Poetry Prize.

Miriam Gamble was born in Brussels in 1980 and grew up in Belfast. She studied at Oxford and at Queen’s University Belfast, where she completed a PhD in contemporary British and Irish poetry. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2007, and the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award in 2010. Her pamphlet, This Man's Town, was published by tall-lighthouse in 2007. Her first book-length collection, The Squirrels Are Dead, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2010 and won her a Somerset Maugham Award in 2011. Her second collection, Pirate Music, was published by Bloodaxe in 2014, followed by a third collection What Planet in 2019. What Planet won the 2020 Pigott Poetry Prize, Ireland's richest poetry award. She lectures in creative writing at Edinburgh University.

11 The Landing Window Is Unspeakable
12 The Oak That Was Not There
13 Time Ball
14 Odradek Returns
15 Wonderland
16 Amethyst
17 Coda
21 Feria de Málaga
22 Leòdhasach
23 The Holy Host in Spanish Art
24 Gutties
25 Alchemist
26 Betty Staff’s
28 Feldspar
30 Incident Report
31 The Wits
32 Oils of Sculptors Working
35 Crane Fly
36 Parotia Displaying in a Forest Clearing
37 Plume
38 Girl with Book and Rubber Bands
40 Bloater
41 Enkidu’s Worm
42 Mare at Large
43 Credentials
44 Siete Lagunas
45 Kitten
49 Marine Snow
50 The Canal at Fountainbridge
52 Gardyloo
54 Little Monument: Se Vende
55 In Memoriam Your Stuff
56 Urn
57 Handwriting
58 Wormhole, Westlink
61 In the Annum
63 Abandoned Asylum
64 Sometimes Nothing
66 Winter Sunday
67 Holograph
68 Person
70 In the Recliner
71 Madeleine
72 IndyRef, 2014
73 Samhain
74 Moths

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Erscheinungsdatum	13.05.2019
Verlagsort	Tyne and Wear
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	1-78037-484-4 / 1780374844
ISBN-13	978-1-78037-484-0 / 9781780374840
Zustand	Neuware