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Arctic elegies
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- Book Synopsis
- This is a mighty book of Norths: northern geographies, histories, lights; a place of definition, frost and cold. There is an unfaltering Recusant spirit about these poems, a survival through defeat and a sense of underlying permanences. Each poem has an occasion: some of the occasions are personal meetings, conversations, which unlock shared scenes and themes; some are historical in origin, their past often one of early Christian faith or religious conflict. The poems abound in art, in specific lived detail, particulars of landscape, and in a harsh weather which is not unlike time itself in its effect on the living and ageing imagination. Each poem requires a different metre, a different pace; each form is carefully attuned to its occasion.
- About The Author
- Peter Davidson was born in Scotland in 1957. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, University of Oxford. Peter has edited theClarendon Poems and Translations of Sir Richard Fanshawe (Vol I, 1998; II, 1999); the Clarendon anthology of seventeenth-century English poetry, Poetry and Revolution(1998), and (with Jane Stevenson)Early Modern Women's Poetry (2001). He has also published numerous articles and studies of the post-reformation culture of British Catholicism, most recently in the monographThe Universal Baroque (Manchester University Press, 2007). The Last of the Light: about twilight was published by Reaktion in 2015.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781800172630
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Carcanet Poetry, (24 November 2022)
- Number of Pages
- 80
- Weight
- 106 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 135 x 10 mm
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