Orpheus Paperback / softback
by THEO DORGAN
Paperback / softback
Description
From self-imposed distance (“I stand back from the streetlight at her school gate”) to a distance that cannot be bridged in a single lifetime, the poems in Theo Dorgan’s extraordinary new collection tell the story of Orpheus, the musician-poet, from artistic awakening through to the cost of remaining faithful to his calling.
In a book presented in two halves, and composed throughout in sapphics – in English, one of the most challenging of poetic forms – Dorgan’s contemporary Orpheus is part-drifter, part-troubadour, part-lover, recognising deeper patterns in his behaviour, but always of this place and time. In the book’s second half, the locus shifts farther out into mythic space with a parallel narrative from the Greek world that both mirrors and interweaves with the first half’s here-and-now.
Together they offer a fresh, adventurous and unexpected take on a foundational mythic figure.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:82 pages
- Publisher:Dedalus Press
- Publication Date:01/05/2018
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- ISBN:9781910251300
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:82 pages
- Publisher:Dedalus Press
- Publication Date:01/05/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781910251300