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RoosterGerry McGrath![]() 10% off all versions
Categories: 21st Century, Scottish
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (84 pages) (Pub. Aug 2012) 9781847771162 £9.95 £8.96 eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Aug 2012) 9781847776655 £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.
Rooster, Gerry McGrath’s second book of poems, observes with painterly precision the commonplaces of our experience, creating landscapes of emotional range and intensity. Biography, history, geography are interwoven in potent new forms: a lover’s fragile caress, the ‘expeditionary skill’ of a dentist, the death of irony celebrated by crows ‘helpless with laughter’, a green tree burning in a red room.
In its second and third sections the book is emboldened by novel experiences and ancient panoramas: the isle of Arran is transmogrified, and a collaboration inspired by the bosky latitudes of the French artists’ commune Grez-sur-Loing adds colour, scope and depth. In the two concluding sections Rooster is at its most ambitious, sketching expansive, rehabilitated vistas of a world that is haunting and new. I Intimate Expanses Snow White Sail The Opposite of Goodbye Only Light The Telling St Petersburg Element The Beach at Irvine The Photographer Pale Cup No Maybes About It You Are Lightning Changed Days The Guests Summer’s End First Blue Box Open Wide Kisses Loose Ends Wheat Magic He Says In Itself La Stanza Rossa Born Fragment (of a Chorale) Eldest Blue Roses Two Words Report from a West Highland Funeral I Hope You Were Tell Me Ask Standing Script Zero Steps Moon II Goat Fell Audience of One Imperfect Suite No. 1 Wordleft Elephant Hide Spheres Two Rivers Silence Cut III Wave A Man of Good Fortune The Morning of Forgetfulness Dutch Interiors Faith IV Return to the City Foreign Travel Rooster Suite No. 2 I – VIII V West Coast Colloquy American Bestiary Horse Feathers Purple
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