Grain Paperback / softback
by John Glenday
Paperback / softback
Description
Though John Glenday has long been admired for his lyrically delicate and emotionally powerful poetry, he has remained something of a well-kept secret.
His third collection, Grain, makes his singular talent available to a wider audience.
Sometimes Glenday’s poems are forcefully direct; sometimes they are so quiet they feel as if they were composed within a capacious listening, as a form of secular prayer.
Glenday’s seamless lyric can also disguise some wild and surreal tales: the Beauty and the Beast told in reverse, a bizarre list of new saints, or a can of peaches waiting for the invention of the tin-opener.
However, the lasting impression is of a genuinely spiritual poet, one with the ability to turn every earthly detail towards the same clear light.
Grain announces Glenday as an essential voice in contemporary poetry.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:64 pages
- Publisher:Pan Macmillan
- Publication Date:06/11/2009
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- ISBN:9780330461344
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:64 pages
- Publisher:Pan Macmillan
- Publication Date:06/11/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780330461344