David Briggs’ new collection offers a midlife counterpart to the Oedipus complex exploring themes of family ties, nostalgia and retreat, ageing and mortality, acts of memorial and the impulse towards hospitality.
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David Briggs’ new collection offers a midlife counterpart to the Oedipus complex exploring themes of family ties, nostalgia and retreat, ageing and mortality, acts of memorial and the impulse towards hospitality.
Les mer
(on previous work) Briggs has learned everything necessary from Edward Thomas about the potential symbolism of everyday things and, as important, has learned when to leave it behind.
This new collection further demonstrates David Briggs's extraordinary flair with form, music, imagery and theme. These poems are deeply sensitised to the processes of ageing, to the challenges and tendernesses of parenthood, friendship, and love, and are wonderfully alive to the quirky details of culture from which they spring. Inventive, witty and playful, profoundly musical, and robustly and beautifully made, Briggs’s poems assert his voice as one of the most mature, intelligent, and vital in contemporary British poetry.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781784633301
Publisert
2024-11-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Salt Publishing
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
9 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
128

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

David Briggs was born in 1972, and grew up in the New Forest. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002, He has published three previous collections of poetry, Rain Rider, The Method Men, and Cracked Skull Cinema. David’s work has appeared in widely in journals and anthologies, and as a recording musician, he released an album of original songs in the early 2000s. From 2019-2023, David was co-editor of the Bristol-based poetry journal Raceme.