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Beschreibung
A collection that captures poignant memories and persistent histories from a celebrated poet of Northern Ireland WINNER OF THE PEN HEANEY PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZEI guess I must have been in two mindsabout the new day
as the daylight gods
began to march in straight lines
>from "The Spare Room" In his first collection for more than a decade, Tom Paulin revisits themes of place, occupation, conflict and legacy, primarily in the context of his native Northern Ireland. Stories and memories, even histories, are shown to be both frail and persistent, troubling and vital. There is a powerful austerity in play as he sets aside the rhetorical force and linguistic dazzle for which he is renowned, to speak simply of later life and the losses it brings: "if only some idea / could find its way / through enemy territory / then I'd at last begin / to look up at the sky." As outward-looking as ever, he also includes here intimate and resonant versions from Brecht and Ronsard, and from the contemporary Palestinian poet, Walid Khazendar.
A collection that captures poignant memories and persistent histories from a celebrated poet of Northern Ireland WINNER OF THE PEN HEANEY PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZEI guess I must have been in two mindsabout the new day
as the daylight gods
began to march in straight lines
>from "The Spare Room" In his first collection for more than a decade, Tom Paulin revisits themes of place, occupation, conflict and legacy, primarily in the context of his native Northern Ireland. Stories and memories, even histories, are shown to be both frail and persistent, troubling and vital. There is a powerful austerity in play as he sets aside the rhetorical force and linguistic dazzle for which he is renowned, to speak simply of later life and the losses it brings: "if only some idea / could find its way / through enemy territory / then I'd at last begin / to look up at the sky." As outward-looking as ever, he also includes here intimate and resonant versions from Brecht and Ronsard, and from the contemporary Palestinian poet, Walid Khazendar.
Über den Autor
Tom Paulin grew up in Belfast and now lives in Oxford, where he is Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, University of Oxford. He has published six books of critical prose on topics including Thomas Hardy and William Hazlitt, several plays, two anthologies and ten collections of poetry. His New Selected Poems appeared in 2014.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780571395842
ISBN-10: 0571395848
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Paulin, Tom
Auflage: Main
Hersteller: Faber & Faber
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 194 x 127 x 7 mm
Von/Mit: Tom Paulin
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.11.2025
Gewicht: 0,092 kg
Artikel-ID: 135387028