Simon Smith

Broschiertes Buch

Municipal Love Poems

Beschreibung

Municipal Love Poems is a companion volume to Last Morning (Parlor Press) which appeared in early 2022, and is Simon Smith's third collection from Shearsman Books. "Simon Smith's Municipal Love Poems navigates between the intimately personal, and the impersonally public. Everywhere the expression is musical, presented in tight lines, phrases, couplets and tercets - never longer - although several of these poems sustain their intensity over pages. The form is 'micrometer right / to the exact fit'. Smith's question in these poems centres around song - sound, music, voice, tongue - 'how do you make the ordinary language sing?'. The poems are characterised by word play and slippage, where one word suggests the next, where the link is as much anagrammatic as it is imagistic. For Smith the lyric may be 'lyre', but it is also 'liar'. These poems move from the celebratory to the more complex elegiac realm of hauntology. Often the subject matter is 'municipal', and these poems are as likely to name BBC News 24, email, 3G, Apple, Monsanto, Isis, space junk and algorithms, as they are likely to include the pastoral indicators of herons, nightingales and blackbirds, bluebells, clouds, rain and moonlight. This is a dynamic, exciting, and attuned collection of poetry." -Andy Brown "In these poems, even as they deny the transcendence of love, hope lies in the small details of everyday life. The isolated lines and short stanzas of a voice with a catch in the throat produce poems and songs where love lies somewhere between a Hallmark card and Baudelaire. Poetry may be the result of inspiration, of taking things in, but, as Simon Smith tells us we also sing when we breathe out into the world." -Ian Davidson

Autor

Municipal Love Poems is a companion volume to Last Morning (Parlor Press, 2022) and is Simon Smith's third collection from Shearsman Books. From 2006 to 2022 Simon taught poetry, translation and creative writing at the University of Kent, London South Bank University and the Open University. From 1991-2007 he worked at The Poetry Library in London, becoming Librarian from 2003-2007. He is now a co-editor for the online magazines Free Verse and Blackbird. He is presently also translating a selection of poems by Du Fu and completing editing projects related to Paul Blackburn. He lives in London and on the Kent Coast.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Shearsman Books
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 195g
• ISBN-13: 9781848618220
• ISBN-10: 1848618220
• Artikelnr.: 66384604