The Abandoned Settlements
$28.41
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
15 January 2017
Summary
A break-up collection of great power and poignancy
The poems in James Sheard’s remarkable third book are about love and leaving, of how the rift of departure brings on a kind of haunting - of the people involved and the places where they lived - an emotional trace of departed lives and loves. This is what these poems are: the scars of separation, the spoors of desire. Sheard writes powerfully about loss, about how the vestiges of significance, of sensual heat, are retained by structur…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781910702475 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1910702471 |
| Author: | James Sheard |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2017 |
| Weight: | 86g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 130mm x 6mm |
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For at his best, James Sheard can be effortlessly moving, and clever - but not for the sake of it.
For at his best, James Sheard can be effortlessly moving, and clever – but not for the sake of it. – Rory Waterman * Times Literary Supplement *
About The Author
James Sheard
James Sheard was born in Cyprus in 1962, and spent his childhood abroad, mainly in Singapore and Germany. As an adult, he spent periods living in Hamburg and Helsinki. His debut collection, Scattering Eva, was shortlisted for the 2005 Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Glen Dimplex Award for Poetry. Dammtor was published in 2010. He lives in mid-Wales and lectures at Keele University.
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