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Arguing with MalarchyCarola Luther![]() 10% off all versions
Categories: 21st Century, LGBTQ+, Women
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (80 pages) (Pub. Jul 2011) 9781847770936 £9.95 £8.96 eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Jul 2011) 9781847778871 £9.95 £8.96 eBook (Kindle) (Pub. Jul 2011) 9781847778888 £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, or are prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
And all the while the old-fashioned business
of ordinary fury and the stubbornness of love could be said to be moving through our conversations, as if these were our labouring fingers drawing imaginary thread through the unnamed and invisible fabrics of the sky... from ‘Making Peace’
Arguing with Malarchy is full of voices. Tender, sinister, sad or cantankerous, they compel us to attend to their realities, the glimpsed depths of their stories, the distances they have travelled. Carola Luther’s poems are alert to the ways a life can be briefly snared in the turn of a phrase – or in the moment when language fails. She explores silences, absences, the unspoken communication between animals and human beings, the living and the dead, and the boundaries between what is remembered, forgotten or invented.
In the book’s first part, a chronicle of mourning creates ‘the bare threads of tunes’ out of what is lost, and begins a new story. In the second part, Luther’s characters live in their language; ‘Keep talking,’ the old man tells Malarchy. We travel through elemental landscapes of sea and sky, shadows and wide savannahs that exist beyond language and sustain when words are silenced. Cover photograph Copyright © Sheila Tilmouth
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