Tell me no more and tell me: 16 - Brossura

Hawkins, Ralph

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1848617763 ISBN 13: 9781848617766

Casa editrice: Shearsman Books, 2021

Riassunto

Tell Me No More and Tell Me, first published in 1981 focuses upon the poet's immediate surroundings, the Essex marshes and the small black timber framed cottage he lived in at the time. Looking back, after such passing of time, and the changes that naturally ensue, these poems capture the exactitude of the poet's daily life and contemplations. They remain indelible of that formative period. Ralph Hawkins' poetry is yeasty and written where the meanings are made rather than assigned. Its impulse is towards the immediate, apparently unsynthesised event where thinking occurs moment by moment. The aesthetic bears some resemblance to close mic techniques, we are drawn near to the experience and all distractions are removed for the intricacies of pure resonance. It produces a poetry as tricky as consciousness itself and its rewards are some considerable distance from the prefabricated commonplace expression of lyrical epiphany. Here is a poetry that is expansive, often humorous and always anarchic. In Tell me no more and tell me Ralph Hawkins' refusal to whistle along with the sanctioned doggerel of English poetry and its returns is startlingly evident, as it has been throughout four decades of creativity. Tell Me No More and Tell Me was published by Grossteste Press, and was the author's first full-length collection. Here it is again on its 40th anniversary.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Ralph Hawkins has been writing poetry since the 1970s, when he was one of a number of radical poets gathered at the University of Essex. He now lives on the Essex coast at Brightlingsea. Of many publications the more substantial are Tell Me No More and Tell Me (Grosseteste 1981; 2nd edition, 2021), At Last Away (Galloping Dog Press 1988), The Coiling Dragon... (Equipage), and his 2004, 2009 and 2015 collections from Shearsman Books. "Do you think there's too much archaeology? Too many people need to dig things up and find them out. It's not necessary to some people and more than necessary for others. There's an industry around it ... It's the doing that's important, not the knowing about the doing. Because that's second. So, obviously some poets are more articulate than others, but articulacy can hide things . . . There's a lot about, sounds impressive but misses the point, floundering around. Maybe that's not what you should be looking at. So I'm not really interested in an archaeology of understanding . . ." - (Ralph Hawkins, from an interview with Ian Davidson)

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Shearsman Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1848617763
• ISBN 13: 9781848617766
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 88
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Germania