Passion / David Morley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morley, David, 1964- author.

Series:

Carcanet poetry

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Poetry

Physical Description:

88 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet Press Ltd., 2025.

Summary:

Drawing on Romany language, storytelling and the speech of birds, award-winning poet David Morley offers a provocative and passionate invitation to reflect afresh on the ways in which the lives, stories and fate of humans - and the more than human - are twinned and entwined. In poems that crackle with verbal energy, he invokes a world where God is Salieri to Nature's Mozart, in which hummingbirds hover like actors 'in a theatre of flowers', pipistrelles become piccolos, swans swerve comets, and a Zyzzyx wasp is 'a zugzwang of six legs and letters'. There are exuberant celebrations of Romany language in the style of Edward Thomas; of how a Yellowhammer inspired Beethoven's Fifth Symphony; of the world-shaping discoveries of women scientists; and an autobiographical sequence, which roots this poet's authority and reflects on how power shapes what may be said in public.

ISBN:

1800174810

9781800174818

OCLC:

1482016405

Publisher Number:

CIPO000239222