The Europeans - Brossura

David Clarke

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1911027697 ISBN 13: 9781911027690

Casa editrice: Nine Arches Press, 2019

Riassunto

David Clarke, winner of the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2013, returns with his second collection, The Europeans. Simultaneously close to home and looking outward beyond these shores, these wry and perceptive poems revel with form and encompass journeys, ideas of nationhood and national identity, and the optimism of a time when Europe and the UK enjoyed a quite different entente cordiale. They are a warning against nostalgia, a lucid and prescient exploration of how we see ourselves and how we are seen.

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'A document for our times. A protest against bigotry and smuggery. A thesis for open borders and equality. In its cumulative effect, The Europeans is a comparative cultural analysis, a social satire and political commentary, a portrait of us and them, here and there, home and away.' --Paul Stephenson

Clarke's authoritative new collection offers profound pleasures, and deepening regrets, in a poetic continent where every reader must confront your own untruth . The Europeans is certainly a book for the present. It is also a book for our uncertain future. --Alison Brackenbury

'It includes the best gathering of found Brexit similes I expect to see in my lifetime, and a poem on stately homes that needs to be broadcast before every re-run of Downton Abbey. With targeted humour, an eye for the mobile and the sedentary, repurposing the mundane, David Clarke takes us to estates of all kinds, to both Leeds Central and Milano Centrale.' --Alistair Noon

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• Editore: Nine Arches Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1911027697
• ISBN 13: 9781911027690
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 80