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Quando Corpus vinse il Whitbread Poetry Award, i giudici lo descrissero come "una raccolta eccezionale e perfettamente ponderata che ispira meditazione sulla natura dell'anima.leggerla è come fare una scoperta emozionante e tornare a un classico riconosciuto, tutto in una volta". Il primo libro di Michael Symmons Roberts, Soft Keys, fu la scoperta originale e più emozionante di tutte. Le poesie in Soft Keys si impegnano in una ricerca di significato e ordine nel quotidiano e nello straordinario: un agente anti-locuste che segue sciami in un deserto africano, un hobbista che costruisce una replica del mondo con i fiammiferi, un incontro casuale con la mistica francese Simone Weil che gioca ai videogiochi in una sala giochi di Torquay. Riccamente inventivo e scritto in un'ampia varietà di forme poetiche, Soft Keys cerca quei luoghi e quei momenti in cui il sipario tra la terra e il cielo è più sottile; fu un debutto potente e avvincente e l'inizio di una carriera straordinaria. Come disse Les Murray all'epoca: "Come Nijinsky, può saltare in aria e rimanerci. Puoi allungare la mano e sentire il tonfo del palco che persiste finemente in un osso della caviglia. Roberts è un poeta per la nuova, castigata, non coercitiva era di fede che è appena spuntata.
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Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1963. He has published six collections of poetry and received a number of accolades including the Forward Prize, the Costa Poetry Award and the Whitbread Poetry Prize. As a librettist, his work has been performed in concert halls and opera houses around the world. An award-winning broadcaster and dramatist, he has published two novels, and is Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. 'These are complex poems of darkness and radiance, miracle and desolation. And behind their answering energies, an awareness of the scintilla of grace' - Pauline StainerWhen Corpus won the Whitbread Poetry Award, the judges described it as 'an outstanding, perfectly weighted collection that inspires meditation on the nature of the soul.reading it feels like making an exciting discovery and coming back to an acknowledged classic all at once.' Michael Symmons Roberts' first book, Soft Keys, was the original and most exciting discovery of all.The poems in Soft Keys engage in a search for meaning and order in the everyday and in the extraordinary - a locust officer tracking swarms in an African desert, a hobbyist building a replica of the world out of matchsticks, a chance encounter with the French mystic Simone Weil playing video games in a Torquay arcade. Richly inventive, and written in a wide diversity of poetic forms, Soft Keys looks for those places and moments where the curtain between earth and heaven is thinnest; it was a powerful, arresting debut and the beginning of a remarkable career.As Les Murray said at the time- 'Like Nijinsky, he can leap into the air and stay there. You can reach up and feel the thump of the stage finely persisting in an ankle bone. Roberts is a poet for the new, chastened, unenforcing age of faith that has just dawned.' Collects poems that engage in a search for meaning and order in the everyday and in the extraordinary - a locust officer tracking swarms in an African desert, a hobbyist building a replica of the world out of matchsticks, and a chance encounter with the French mystic Simone Weil playing video games in a Torquay arcade. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780224090018
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