Long pass / Joey Connolly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Connolly, Joey, author.

Series:

First Carcanet collections.

First Carcanet collections

Standardized Title:

Poetry. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--21st century.

English poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

85 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet, 2017.

Summary:

'Ach! I misspoke. What I mean to say is this...' In Long Pass, Joey Connolly's first collection, the poet - in love, in puzzlement, in frustration or in elegy - keeps catching himself out, starting again. He wants to speak truthfully. He wants to say things simply. But nothing is as simple as it seems at first. Nothing strikes the interlocutor quite as he intends. Ach! He goes back. Deflections, tangents: the long pass, the long unfolding sentence, the growing sequence, move away from what they intend to say in order at last, wittily, angrily, ironically, to swerve in and say it. Translation, too, is hard. There are often competing versions - of Lorca, for example, and Cavafy. 'The painter is frustrated to be always / painting onto something, to be / concealing precisely as he displays.' Words reveal and at the same time conceal, yet what they conceal is part of what they want to say. The poet throws the poem for someone who isn't always there to catch. The fortunate reader intercepts. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Theories

The Finest Fire-Proofing We Have 11

The Draft 12

Chekhov's Gun 13

Poem in Which Go I 14

The Rider's Song 15

First Letter from the Frontier 17

[untititled] 18

Beauties of the Northwest

I A daytrip to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park 19

II A walk around Manley Park 20

Six Filters 22

Failed State 25

Content 25

Coming to Pass 26

Netherlands 28

Of Some Substance, Once 29

An Ocean 30

Some Pecuniary Observations 32

The Way of Doing Things Trees Have 33

Carrying 35

Average Temperature at Surface Level 37

The Big House 43

History 44

2 Windmills

Escape to the Reservoir Café 49

For the Very Last Time 50

Comprehension Test 52

What You've Done 53

Incapable though the cards are 54

In the Process 55

That rogue longing 57

Your room at midnight was suddenly 58

Saturation 60

Loss 61

Poem in Which if not Well 63

On Latterly Overcoming Last October's Loss 64

Themselves 65

2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 67

Didn't Jokes Used to be Funny? 68

Liguria 69

In the moment 70

Third Ballad 73

A Picture 76

Fantasy of Manners 77

A Brief Glosa 78

I am positioned 79

Why? 80

Last Letter from the Frontier 83.

ISBN:

1784103284

9781784103286

OCLC:

962010409