The Hook - Softcover

Bush, Duncan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854112031 ISBN 13: 9781854112033

Verlag: Seren, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

The powerful early poems of Duncan Bush are now available in this volume incorporating his two prize-winning collections Aquarium (1983) and Salt (1985) together with several poems published in pamphlet form at the time of the 1984-85 Miners' Strike.

The poems in this book focus on a number of themes that Duncan Bush has continually refined over the years. His central concerns remain: the nature of work, the impact of industry on its environs, and the fate of modern man at the centre of a complicated web of social, political and personal forces.

We encounter football fans and navvies, farm labourers and the beach set, mythical heroes and the youthful unemployed. The poet evokes with equal immediacy the Mississippi river and the Mediterranean littoral, urban London, a non-tourist Oxford, and the historical and human landscape of his native Wales.

Also here are many of the poet's outstanding translations - of Pavese, Montale, Mallarme and Baudelaire.

Duncan Bush was born and brought up in Cardiff, Wales. He was educated at Warwick, Duke and Oxford Universities. His collection Masks (1994) was a PBS Recommendation and Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year. He has also published novels, Glass Shot (Secker) and The Genre of Silence as well as scripts for stage and screen. He currently divides his time between Wales and Europe.

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Duncan Bush is a poet, novelist, dramatist, translator and documentary writer. He was born and brought up in Cardiff, Wales and was educated at Warwick, Duke and Oxford Universities. His poetry collections Aquarium and Salt where both awarded the Welsh Arts Council Prize for Poetry in the 1980s and have been republished by Seren in a single volume The Hook. His collection Masks was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and won the 1995 Arts Council of Wales ‘Book of the Year’ award. He is the author of several novels, including The Genre of Silence, Glass Shot, All the Rage and is currently completing one about a politician in the Sarkozy government. Duncan Bush released his latest poetry collection The Flying Trapeze with Seren in 2012.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Seren
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1854112031
• ISBN 13: 9781854112033
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 140
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