Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Nomenclature : New and Collected Poems, Paperback / softback Book

Nomenclature : New and Collected Poems Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product

Description

Trenchant, lyrical and breathtaking in its cinematic sweep, the first UK poetry publication by the Canadian national treasureDionne Brand's poetry makes scalar leaps from the 'eroding present' and the 'intimacy of history' to 'unknown galaxies' and 'as yet / unarmed moons'.

With a consciousness that is attuned to this world and open to some other, possibly future, time and place, Brand's ongoing labours of witness and imagination speak directly to where and how we live and reach beyond those worlds, their enclosures, and their violences.

Brand is, in other words, a poet engage, and hers is a poetics of liberation; she does not 'write toward anything called justice, but against tyranny'.

With a critical introduction by scholar and theorist Christina Sharpe, Nomenclature is the searing new volume spanning a decades-long career, from 1982-2022, and gathering the new and collected poems of one of Canada's most honoured, significant and bestselling poets.

Here, Dionne Brand bears powerful witness to the seemingly unending wars, the ascendance of fundamentalisms and the nameless casualties of the current era, but also to the rich textures of human life and human feeling that, in the face of this world's violences, endure and flourish. It is a masterwork, classic and living, and a record of one of the great writers of our age.

Information

Other Formats

Save 13%

£12.99

£11.25

Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information