Description
| Product ID: | 9781509840427 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | It Says Here |
| Authors: | Author: Sean O'Brien |
| Page Count: | 64 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A brilliant collection from T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet Sean O'Brien. <p><i>It Says Here</i> is Sean O’Brien’s follow-up to his celebrated collection <i>Europa,</i> and has a vision as rich and wide-ranging as its predecessor. Set against shorter, ruthlessly focused pieces – vicious and scabrous political sketches and satires charting the growth of extremism and the disintegration of democracy – are meditations on the imaginative life, dream and remembrance, time and recurrence. There are elegies for friends and fellow poets; paranoiac, brooding pastorals; other poems lay bare the maddening trials of a historically literate mind as it attempts to navigate a world gone post-content, post-intellectual, and at times post-memory. At the centre of the book is the long poem <i>Hammersmith, </i>a shadowy, cinematic dream-vision of England during and since the Second World War. Here, O’Brien charts a psychogeographic journey through the English countryside and the haunted precincts of London, mapping a labyrinth of love, madness and lost history. The result is a stirring, illuminating document of a time of immense societal flux and upheaval by one of our finest poets and most insightful cultural commentators.<br><br>'In both technical mastery and his belief in the seriousness of the poetic art, O’Brien is WH Auden’s true inheritor.' <i>Irish Times</i></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-09-03 |
