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The Glacial StairwayPeter Riley10% off eBook (EPUB)
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Jul 2011) 9781847779410 £9.95 £8.96 Paperback (80 pages) (Pub. Jul 2011) 9781847770790 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 long high song echoing over the trees down the slope the leaves flicker a world picture A tempered wish, a tied purpose slices the air, our failing falling ecstasy, our trade. from ‘Shining Cliff’
The Glacial Stairway takes the reader on journeys in verse and prose, over a mountain pass in the Pyrenees, from King's Cross to the School of Oriental and African Studies; to the seasons of eighth-century China by way of a series of twentieth-century readings; through a wood in Derbyshire and on a road trip across the American West, 'charmed zone of bears and ghosts'.
In poems and sequences written between 2003 and 2010 Peter Riley explores his terrain in extended meditations and monologues, collages of fragmented noticings and sudden bursts of song. Layering and counterpoint: the past surfaces; voices reverberae, picking up the themes. The mental traveller encounters pressures of history, culture and language, across time and place.
His poetry is urgently challenging and immensely valuable - David Kennedy, PN Review
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