The Breakfast Room - Brossura

Conn, Stewart

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1852248564 ISBN 13: 9781852248567

Casa editrice: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2010

Riassunto

The waif-like figure peering from Bonnard's "The Breakfast Room" instils a sense of mystery and marginality in Stewart Conn's title-poem. Among other portents of transience in his latest collection are two briefly glimpsed duck shooters. Responses to music, tinged with warmth and humour, highlight the redeeming power of art. The book concludes with a group of love poems imbued with tenderness and a treasuring of the here and now.

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Recensione

'The title "Ghosts at Cockcrow" captures the precarious beauty of Conn's work, its departures and beginnings, its lingerings and resurrections - his almost trademark filigree assonances and half rhymes, wry asides and sudden details. Anger, art, angst, guilt and guile, the humane and the human are all here. --Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday

'"Ghosts at Cockcrow" is a graceful "slipping" as he puts it, into seniority, at once a coming of old age, and an acquiring of senior status among Scotland's poets. It is full of high culture, old Europe and wry self-deprecation, visiting Barcelona, Burgundy and the capital to which he played laureate for three years, Edinburgh.' --W.N. Herbert, Poetry London

'He stands among the indispensable poets of modern and contemporary Scotland.' --Douglas Dunn, The Dark Horse

L'autore

Stewart Conn was born in Glasgow in 1936, grew up in Ayrshire, and has lived in Edinburgh for many years. He has published several poetry collections, and his plays have been widely performed. His books include Stolen Light: Selected Poems (1999), Ghosts at Cockcrow (2005) and The Breakfast Room (2010) from Bloodaxe, and his memoir Distances (2001) from Scottish Cultural Press. He has won awards from the Scottish Arts Council and the Society of Authors, among others, while An Ear to the Ground was a Poetry Book Society Choice. He formerly worked as a BBC drama producer, and was Edinburgh's first Makar or Poet Laureate in 2002-05.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1852248564
• ISBN 13: 9781852248567
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 64
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile