Ocean Letters - Softcover

Woods, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906614423 ISBN 13: 9781906614423

Verlag: Dedalus Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

In this third collection of his poems, Irish poet Joseph Woods again returns to the theme of travel, at once deepening and expanding the concerns of his earlier work, while he also explores the meaning of return and homecoming, of being abroad in one's own place and of seeing the familiar from a new perspective. Childhood memories and experiences are renewed and refreshed, the past and the future echoing each other, from the child in the opening poem "imagining myself in some ship's open hold / while Morse code drifted in from the kitchen" to the closing poem where an old man on "a wet lane of fuchsia-laden hedges / on the damp island of Chiloé" might have "stravaged out / of my country decades ago".

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Joseph Woods is the award-winning author of three poetry collections. His first, Sailing to Hokkaido (2001) won the Patrick Kavanagh Award and, together with his second, Bearings, was reissued by Dedalus in a single volume entitled Cargo in 2010. His most recent, Ocean Letters (2011), has been translated into Hungarian and was awarded the Irodalmi Jelen Prize in 2013. A past recipient of the Katherine and Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship, he was for many years Director of Poetry Ireland. Widely travelled, he moved to Myanmar in the years leading up to the democratic elections and now lives in Harare, Zimbabwe with his family.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Dedalus Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1906614423
• ISBN 13: 9781906614423
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 68
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