The terrible / Daniel Sluman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sluman, Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--21st century.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (58 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Rugby, United Kingdom : Nine Arches Press, 2015.

Summary:

Daniel Sluman 's bleak brilliance in the terrible is a masterclass in the power of poetry to confront difficult subject matter with accuracy and painstaking openness. These are rigorous and exacting poems, that dare to go to some of the darkest places and speak with stark precision. These poems may be stripped down, intense and utterly frank, but they are not without deep reserves of sincerity and beauty. Sluman writes of the heady cocktail of being alive, where loss, love, sex, close shaves with mortality and sharp narratives of pain and suffering are explored with concise and humane clarity. "Daniel Sluman's new collection explores acute and chronic, emotional and physical pain (and, albeit less often, pleasure) with a raw, compelling urgency. At times playful, at times harrowing, the terrible always brims with life." - Carrie Etter "Vivid and honest poems of intense experience, in which no wound is too deep to be cauterised by language. " - Jean Sprackland

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781911027508

1911027506

OCLC:

1455751826