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THE STAIRWELL
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| By: |
Michael Longley |
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Electronic book text |
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£10.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1473511046 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781473511040 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
14 August, 2014 |
| Pages: |
80 |
| Description: |
The author is well-known for his Homeric versions, and the Iliad is a presiding presence - both in poems about the Great War and in the range of imagery that gives his twin's death a mythic dimension. In this title, poems encompass birth as well as death, childhood and age, nature and art, the animal and human worlds, battlefield and 'homeland'. |
| Synopsis: |
Winner of the 2015 Griffin Poetry PrizeShortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot PrizeIn The Stairwell, his tenth collection, Michael Longley's themes and forms reach a new intensity. The second part of the book is a powerful sequence of elegies for his twin brother, Peter, and the dominant mood elsewhere is elegiac. The title poem begins: `I have been thinking about the music for my funeral ...' The two parts are also linked by Homer. Longley is well-known for his Homeric versions, and the Iliad is a presiding presence - both in poems about the Great War and in the range of imagery that gives his twin's death a mythic dimension. Yet funeral music can be life-affirming. Longley has built this collection on intricate doublings, not only when he explores the tensions of twinship. The psychologically suggestive word `stairwell' is itself an ambiguous compound. These poems encompass birth as well as death, childhood and age, nature and art, the animal and human worlds, tenderness and violence, battlefield and `homeland'. The Stairwell is a richly textured, immensely moving work. Michael Longley has the rare ability to fuse emotional depth with complicated artistry: to make them, somehow, the same thing. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage Digital |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Griffin International Poetry Prize 2015 (UK)
Short-listed for T S Eliot Prize 2015 (UK) |
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Non-returnable |
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