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The Sleepwalker at SeaKelly Grovier10% off eBook (EPUB)
Categories: 21st Century, American
Imprint: OxfordPoets Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Aug 2011) 9781847778291 £9.95 £8.96 Paperback (Pub. May 2011) 9781906188009 Out of Stock 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.
The map I’m after is scarred – creased
where half the land’s been folded back, forgotten, and half has wiped the palms, the frozen eyes of Napoleon or Petraeus. Why, you ask, do I seek such a thing – elbow-deep in the neighbour’s rubbish? Why else: we’re lost, of course. from 'Map'
The poems in The Sleepwalker at Sea tread a fluid line between dream and wakefulness, memory and loss, presence and longing. Leave a house and it suddenly fills with ‘the unseen’; consult ‘The Book of Clues’ and discover only ‘ghostly hints’ of a self you’ve left behind. Linked by their restless displacement, pacing haunted spaces, these are poems that question what it means to be in the world and seek answers in lost rooms, missing sketches, disappearing fragments.
By turns meditative and playful, romantic and philosophical, The Sleepwalker at Sea strides an invisible path through streets of strangers, in search of ruined altars, buried candles, and ‘the whispering galleries of the dead’. Here, deer ‘dissolve / into a tapestry of mist’, a butterfly ‘measures / the universe’s weight’, and the soul ‘sculpts itself in frostlit air’. Cover painting Jindřich Ulrich, The Sleepwalker, 2010. Oil on wood. Private collection. © Jindřich Ulrich, reproduced by kind permission of the artist. Cover painting:
Contents
The Guest Hobbies Watermarks Feet The Other City Mississippi To Carry the One The Thread Map Second-Hand The Book of Clues Adding Up Almonds The Frame Schoolteacher Face Blindness Wan Hu’s Flying Chair ‘It’s turtles all the way down’ Exact Change At Spring Hummingbird Inventions Common Ground Malá Strana Wren A Butterfly in the British Museum Icon Fra Angelico The Vanishing Hand Permanent Collection Bird in the Air Pump Giacometti’s Walking Man The Ruined Statue of a Saint The Ratio Buried Candles The Microscope Drift Tom Paine’s Bones A Tortoise in the Chelsea Physic Garden The Meadow Old-Fashioned Things Trakl The Lost Room The Glass Armonica The Carnival Tent Carrick-a-Rede Kingfisher Lips Rilke Fergus The Sleepwalker at Sea Murmuration A Little Night Music Recent Acquisitions Pancho Villa Reading in Bed
Praise for Kelly Grovier
'The 'poetry is precise and well crafted' with 'delicate touches and nuances' that 'reveal a delight in the poetic treatment of sensory expression and cast Grovier as a poet acutely attuned to the intricacies and balances of light'.'
The New Welsh Review 'Wonderful precision, technical ambition, and the ability to surprise the reader' Poetry London 'This is a poet of both truth and beauty' Times Literary Supplement '...Grovier's poetry at its best is formidable: the marriage of music and mind.' Alison Brackenbury, Poetry Wales 'Grovier's poems are often amusing and childlike... The narrators may fret, but Grovier's craft stills poem and reader inside a "slip-knot of stars"'. New Welsh Review
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