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Rogue states
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- Book Synopsis
- The phrase 'rogue states' has been conjured up with deadly purpose, by major world powers, to describe weaker countries who have fallen out of favour with the West, some of whom enjoyed the role of client states for many years, or were permitted to rule despotically under the benevolent threat of 'regime change' if they in any way proved politically or economically difficult. Issues of human rights never entered into it. Johnston's new collection of poems adopts the phrase and personalises it; serious illness is seen as a 'rogue state,' a usurpation of the lived ordinary, a demolishing of physical and moral routine, a form of invasion. In illness, as in civil turmoil, civilising rules are often turned upside down or disregarded, a powerful and selfish striving for survival develops. Other poems take on the mundane everyday, the speculative, and contemplate the uses of the poetic imagination in a society where, in the poet's view, poetry itself is under siege and its use and importance reset. Politics and society can never be outside or beyond the poet's critical reach.
- About The Author
- Fred Johnston was born in Belfast in 1951. His poems have appeared in The Spectator, The New Statesman, and a short story in Standmagazine. In 1972, he received a Hennessy Literary Award for prose. In the mid-Seventies, with Neil Jordan and Peter Sheridan, he co-founded The Irish Writers' Co-operative (Co-Op Books.) In 2002, he was a co-recipient of the Prix de l'Ambassade, Ireland. His most recent collection of short stories, Dancing In The Asylum, was published by Parthian. In 1986, he founded Galway's annual literature festival, Cúirt; in 2002, he was writer-in-residence to the Princess Grace Irish Library at Monaco. Fred has published nine collections of poems, four novels and two collections of short stories.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781912561254
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Salmon Poetry, (06 May 2019)
- Number of Pages
- 73
- Weight
- 105 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 155 x 7 mm
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