Arctic Elegies by Peter Davidson Paperback Book

Description: Arctic Elegies by Peter Davidson The second Carcanet poetry collection from Peter Davidson is a book of elegies and consolations for dead friends, past times, and spiritual consolations. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This is a mighty book of Norths: northern geographies, histories, lights; a place of definition, frost and cold. There is an unfaltering Recusant spirit about these poems, a survival through defeat and a sense of underlying permanences.Each poem has an occasion: some of the occasions are personal meetings, conversations, which unlock shared scenes and themes; some are historical in origin, their past often one of early Christian faith or religious conflict. The poems abound in art, in specific lived detail, particulars of landscape, and in a harsh weather which is not unlike time itself in its effect on the living and ageing imagination. Each poem requires a different metre, a different pace; each form is carefully attuned to its occasion. Author Biography Peter Davidson was born in Scotland in 1957 and educated there and at the Universities of Cambridge and York. He is Senior Research Fellow of Campion Hall, University of Oxford, and Fellow-Curator of the Halls art collection. As well as many academic works he has published several books of literary non-fiction: The Idea of North (2005), Distance and Memory (2013), The Last of the Light (2015), and The Lighted Window (2021). This is his second collection for Carcanet. Review This is a poets book, his mind wide open to the cultures of the world [...] luscious, musical and precise - Gillian Clarke on The Palace of Oblivion Long Description This is a mighty book of Norths: northern geographies, histories, lights; a place of definition, frost and cold. There is an unfaltering Recusant spirit about these poems, a survival through defeat and a sense of underlying permanences. Each poem has an occasion: some of the occasions are personal meetings, conversations, which unlock shared scenes and themes; some are historical in origin, their past often one of early Christian faith or religious conflict. The poems abound in art, in specific lived detail, particulars of landscape, and in a harsh weather which is not unlike time itself in its effect on the living and aging imagination. Each poem requires a different metre, a different pace; each form is carefully attuned to its occasion. Peter Davidson was born in Scotland in 1957 and educated there and at the Universities of Cambridge and York. He is Senior Research Fellow of Campion Hall, Oxford, and Fellow-Curator of the Halls art collection. As well as academic works he has published several works of literary nonfiction. This is his second collection for Carcanet. Review Text This is a poets book, his mind wide open to the cultures of the world [...] luscious, musical and precise - Gillian Clarke on The Palace of Oblivion Description for Sales People This second Carcanet poetry collection from Peter Davidson is a book of elegies and consolations for dead friends, past times, and spiritual consolations. Details ISBN180017263X Author Peter Davidson Format Paperback Year 2022 ISBN-10 180017263X ISBN-13 9781800172630 Publication Date 2022-11-24 UK Release Date 2022-11-24 Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd Place of Publication Manchester Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2022-11-24 Pages 72 Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd DEWEY 821.92 Audience General AU Release Date 2022-12-26 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139197154;

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