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The acts of oblivion / Paul Batchelor.
Van Pelt Library PR6102.A7845 A28 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Batchelor, Paul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Revolutionaries--England--Poetry.
- Revolutionaries.
- Coal mines and mining--England--Poetry.
- Coal mines and mining.
- Great Britain--History--Poetry.
- Great Britain.
- English poetry--21st century.
- English poetry.
- Poetry, Modern--21st century.
- Poetry, Modern.
- Poets, English.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Historical poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 142 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Carcanet Poetry, 2021.
- Summary:
- The 'Acts of Oblivion' were a series of seventeenth-century laws enacted by both Parliamentarian and Royalist factions. Whatever their ends -- pardoning revolutionary deeds, or expunging revolutionary speech from the record -- they forced the people to forget. Against such injunctions, Paul Batchelor's poems rebel. This long-awaited second collection, The Acts of Oblivion, listens in on some of England's lost futures, such as those offered by radical but sidelined figures in the English Civil War, or by the deliberately destroyed mining communities of North East England, remembered here with bitter, illuminating force. The book also collects the acclaimed individual poems 'Brother Coal' and 'A Form of Words', alongside visions of the underworld as imagined by Homer, Lucian, Lucan, Ovid, and Dante.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I. Brother Coal
- Brother Coal
- ()
- Pit Ponies
- Returns
- A Brace of Snipe
- To a Halver
- Labourers, Allendale, c.1875
- Undersong
- The Buttoned Lip
- The Prophet
- →
- Comeuppance
- A Lyke-Wake Dirge
- The Matter
- Sober-Hearted Man Blues
- The Seven Joys of Failure
- The Tawny Owl
- Powder Blue
- The Well
- A Form of Words
- Last Poem
- II. The Acts Of Oblivion
- To History
- The Parasite
- The Rogue
- Lord Hearsay's Palace
- Sapphics for Elizabeth Lilburne
- Well Done, Thou Good and Faithful Servant
- Societe
- The Witch
- The Discoverer's Man
- The Footnote
- Seated Figure with Arms Raised
- The Curlew
- III. Brantwoods Enilia
- `My dear little birds...'
- IV. The Marble Veil
- `That some things are lost...'
- The Damned.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Poems.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1800171994
- 9781800171992
- OCLC:
- 1255175433
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