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Local HabitationA Sequence of PoemsPeter Dale
Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (96 pages) (Pub. Jun 2009) 9780856464188 Out of Stock
Draw Dan Gill ‘You’re like a fly circling the centre light, ‘You’ll not craze me with any see-through stuff. This sequence of poems in three voices introduces a ghostly eternal triangle whose lines are ruled feint or bold in response to situation, time and change. A man and two women explore their memories in conversational poems which, in their combination of lyric and narrative, form a novel contribution to poetry. The story is of an abruptly ended first love affair, an encounter and marriage with another, the joy of birth, the mourning for the infant’s death and its aftermath. The voices of the protagonists, rooted in their local habitations, weave in and out of the speech and consciousness of each of them with all the nuances, pleasures and regrets of hindsight and its shifts in recollection. |
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