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Sound HousesWill Eaves![]()
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ISBN: 978 1 847771 12 4 Categories: First Collections Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Published: September 2011 216 x 135 x 5 mm 64 pages Publisher: Carcanet Press Also available in: eBook (EPUB), eBook (Kindle)
Look at the collars with real names,
Books, games, a stainless steel trophy Lifted, discarded, then bought by me Knowing I wasn’t the first or best And that envy can be laid to rest, Here in the warm room of no claims. from ‘Charity’
Will Eaves’ first book of poems explores several continents, moods and stages of life. Common experience – of growing up, growing older, losing a parent, being in love, enjoying the natural world in all its nearness and remoteness – provides his themes. Wherever they are set, in the Australian bush or in a West Country sickroom, the poems keep faith with the consolations that come from close observation and stillness. Well-loved authors and books appear suddenly; hair-raising anecdotes and football matches become occasions for elegiac comedy; music and domestic ritual raise ghosts.
Both formal and informal, funny and sad, these lyrical poems seek out a strangeness in the everyday: in the transformational territory of childhood and the equally uncertain adult world of grief and loss. Cover image: Isolated House, 4 (detail), copyright © Harry Adams, by kind permission of the artist. I Evening Lesson 11 Small Hours 12 Demonstration Day 13 English 14 Majesty of Nature 15 From Weymouth 16 Bloody Ill 17 Evacuees 18 A Kilburn Massage 19 Kickabout 20 Salomon’s Offertory 21 Three Flies 22 Summit 23 Accommodation for Owls 24 Spider 25 Charity 26 Skimpole Abroad 27 Ariel in Texas 28 II Hornets 31 Chestnuts 32 Gold Coast 33 Roman Road 34 The Former Resident 35 The Grass on the Other Side 36 Curve 37 Grounds 38 Crater 39 100,000,000 AD 40 A Difficult Birth 41 Cracked Happiness 43 Any Impediment 45 Bird Song 46 Kin Limbo 47 The Fight in the Lake 48 Horus and Janus 49 Clifftops, Folkestone 50 III Avocado 53 Punk Revolution 54 The Field 55 The Clock 56 Elegies Around Noon 57 Footsore 58 Fantastic Blue 59 Home 60 Silverflash 61 Powers of the Minor Gods 62 Aberdyfi 63 A Year Later 64
Awards won by Will Eaves
Short-listed, 2014 Goldsmiths prize
'Poetry is a pleaching of language into its most original, convincing and economic shape. Will Eaves has such technical magic at every moment in this collection. Whether semi-concealed narrative, allegorical landscape or literary annotation, each poem in Sound Houses is a pleasure and a satisfaction to encounter.'
Peter Porter
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