Near-life experience / Rowland Bagnall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bagnall, Rowland, 1992- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--21st century.

English poetry.

Poets, English--21st century.

Poets, English.

Physical Description:

87 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet, 2024.

Summary:

Strike up music! Scope tomorrow's printless straits! I slice the tomatoes, saving their skins - their seeds freckle the countertop. No ideas but in No ideas but in things - tell me about it...The poems in Near-Life Experience are curious about the present moment, its weather and animals, its objects and things. They want to make it real in language, catching it before it vanishes. Documenting landscapes, paintings, insects and trees, Near-Life Experience offers a world where understanding is subverted by the day's distractions and the unexpected shapes of the imagination. How do I relate to this? What does it mean? What's happening, exactly? Does experience experience me? With descriptive precision and inventiveness, the poet finds humour and panic at the edges of the actual. The poems measure expanding and contracting times, birthdays, seasons, climate breakdown, witnessing the moment and its 'sheer / ongoing changes'.

ISBN:

1800173903

9781800173903

OCLC:

1402162608