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In Mortal MemoryAndrew McNeillie10% off eBook (EPUB)
Categories: 21st Century, Welsh
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (72 pages) (Pub. Feb 2010) 9781847770844 Out of Stock eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Feb 2010) 9781847779199 £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.
What might be better days? Don't get me started. True and untrue to say they lie ahead as in the first line of a poem poised to be written. from 'In the Midst of Life'
In Mortal Memory is a collection of lyric poems, celebratory if often melancholy, both elegiac and ironic. Affirming that life is ‘all becoming’ McNeillie mourns what that means in terms of loss and sorrow at time passing. The sea is a powerful presence, its meaning drawn both from the northern landscapes in which McNeillie’s work is rooted, and from the work of French poets, from Baudelaire and Hugo to Rimbaud and Corbière. The poems pitch up and down across formalities, against the idea of purity, while sustaining a rhyming, singing line.
Contents:
Part I: Song in Winter Winter Song (i) Chanson d’hiver (ii) Road Closed (iii) Winter (iv) The Shadow of a Blackbird (v) O Wood! (vi) February Song (vii) Les Feuilles d’automne (viii) Uneven Song (ix) Tidings (x) Spinney Boozy Weather Grief How Deep is the Ocean? High and Dry Les Poètes maudits i.m. Juliette Drouet Love in the Language Room Le Rêve Solo in New York Summer Reading My Death Mislaid Trick Cyclist At 'The Oystercatcher', Portmahomack Literalist Spring Campaign The Rising of the Year Hedger Great Leveller Internal Exile Botanical Gardens Revisited Nightjars Arctic Terns Anno Domini 2007 Summer Migrant The Big Snow The Wild Thorn Part II: At Sea Life-line The Voyage Night-Snow from A Night on Whalsay Netting the Scottish Fish The Lilies of the Field Casting Synge-Song O Vos Omnes (i) Baudelaire: 'Quelques caricaturistes français' (ii) Homage to K.D. (iii) i.m. Donato di Niccolo Donatello (iv) i.m. Sion Hill (v) End of the Line… (vi) Alms and the Man (vii) Bedside Reading (viii) Spleen et idéal Commemoration Cnut 2008 Aswim In the Midst of Life i.m.lah Seaworthy
'The finest poems here are witty and elegiac, comforting and cajoling and speak of pervading human concerns with a rare lyrical ease and quiet authority. McNeillie's special gift is for providing the pleasure that comes from recognition: we can see ourselves in his poems. The book carries an epigram from Wordsworth, and there is a Wordsworthian sense of audience and connection in this collection.'
Times Literary Supplement
Praise for Andrew McNeillie
'Striking a Match in a Storm illustrates that McNeillie is one of Wales's leading modern poets, and his work ranks alongside that of Gwyneth Lewis, Robert Minhinnick, Gillan Clarke and Dannie Abse. No anthology of Welsh poetry will ever be complete again without a comprehensive selection of McNeillie's poetry.'PC Evans, Poetry Wales 'The wind blows hard and the sea crashes through his poems, brilliant and evocative of the littoral... [a] multifarious collection. Striking a Match in a Storm demonstrates an outstanding nature writer at the helm of these poems.' Dan McCarthy, Irish Examiner 'A living poetic language flows, easy and slangy, the occasional poems which punctuate the later part of the collection are vitalized and real, among them elegies that remember mourning his father's death, and other deaths, which ring true, urged into being by poetry itself.' Gillian Clarke 'There is some extraordinary virtuosity here - in one poem, he finds 33 half-rhymes for 'envy'. John Greening, Country Life
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