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Arguing with MalarchyCarola Luther
Categories: 21st Century, LGBTQ+, Women
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (80 pages) (Pub. Jul 2011) 9781847770936 Out of Stock eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Jul 2011) 9781847778871 £9.95 £8.96 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
And all the while the old-fashioned business
of ordinary fury and the stubbornness of love could be said to be moving through our conversations, as if these were our labouring fingers drawing imaginary thread through the unnamed and invisible fabrics of the sky... from ‘Making Peace’
Arguing with Malarchy is full of voices. Tender, sinister, sad or cantankerous, they compel us to attend to their realities, the glimpsed depths of their stories, the distances they have travelled. Carola Luther’s poems are alert to the ways a life can be briefly snared in the turn of a phrase – or in the moment when language fails. She explores silences, absences, the unspoken communication between animals and human beings, the living and the dead, and the boundaries between what is remembered, forgotten or invented.
In the book’s first part, a chronicle of mourning creates ‘the bare threads of tunes’ out of what is lost, and begins a new story. In the second part, Luther’s characters live in their language; ‘Keep talking,’ the old man tells Malarchy. We travel through elemental landscapes of sea and sky, shadows and wide savannahs that exist beyond language and sustain when words are silenced. Cover photograph Copyright © Sheila Tilmouth
Awards won by Carola Luther
Short-listed, 2022 The Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry (On the Way to Jerusalem Farm)
Praise for Carola Luther
'Using rhyme, half-rhyme, the possibility of rhyme she creates a poetic rhythm which is extraordinary - as natural as a heartbeat and, in terms of pace, these are poems that take their time. There's no need to rush, no pressure and, as you read them you feel you're in strong and capable hands.'
Hilary Hares, The High Window 'Luther's powers of description make this book a joy to read, with evocative and fresh images... These exquisite images are however grounded in reality: even when the agony of loss lessens and colour returns.' Mary Mulholland, The Alchemy Spoon
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