Description
| Product ID: | 9781529092776 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | bandit country |
| Authors: | Author: James Conor Patterson |
| Page Count: | 96 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets, Northern Ireland |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Debut poetry collection from Eric Gregory Award-winning poet. <p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 T.S. ELIOT PRIZE <br><br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE</b><br><br><i>bandit country</i>, the much-anticipated debut collection from James Conor Patterson, is a rollicking, hyper-literate and at times deeply troubling account of a young man’s navigation of the semi-lawless borderlands between the north of Ireland and the Republic – the ‘bandit country’ of the Troubles – and the criss-crossed sea border to England and beyond. Patterson shows us how the militarised boundary line of old has morphed into an invisible and semi-wild frontier, where the ghosts of a thirty-year war continue to haunt the ‘ceasefire generation’.<br><br>Patterson writes in a hybrid dialect of Newry street and Scots and Irish-inflected English – and in a virtuosic variety of forms: these poems crackle with vernacular wit and the rhythms of everyday speech, absorbing the influence of the poet’s Belfast mentor, Ciaran Carson, and the radical poetics of Tom Leonard. Already a rising star and Eric Gregory award-winner, James Conor Patterson is an extraordinary talent at the forefront of a new wave of poets exploring the linguistic inheritance of region and community.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-09-01 |
