Author: French, Tom
Number Of Pages: 96
Release Date: 03-10-2022
Details: Winner of the 2023 Piggot Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the 2023 Yeats Society Poetry Prize. Tom French’s seventh collection of poems displays an uncommon range of subject matter — from responses to the work of an American Midwestern primitive painter to a chilling account (in ‘Commission’) of the treatment of young, unmarried mothers in Ireland. Unusually adept at both long and short poems, as well as sequences, the poet is again haunted by the legacy of world wars and the smaller wars in between. ‘To Distance’ is an extended chronicle of the lockdown while the book’s mood is tempered by the absurd comedy of the Ayreshire Cattle Breeders’ annual meeting. In poems marked by rare poise the author ventures into various hostelries, including one where This threshold holds against the very tide. Call here a port. Call all outdoors the storm. Steadily and without fanfare Tom French’s work warms to facing down the predicament of living.
EAN: 9781911338314
Languages: english
Binding: Paperback
Item Condition: New