The Play of Waves (Visible Poets) - Softcover

Mifsud, Immanuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908376678 ISBN 13: 9781908376671

Verlag: Arc Publications, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Immanuel Mifsud is one of Malta's most influential writers, and this, his second collection in English translation by the poet Maurice Riordan, confirms his standing internationally as a poet of distinction. Lyrical, melancholy, passionate, his poetry is highly impressionistic, full of fleeting moments which reflect the immutability of the natural world with its seasons and its 'play of waves', the excitement and anguish of being alive, the inexorability of old age, the unremitting darkness of what lies ahead. Mifsud's language is direct and unadorned, yet the images he creates are unsettling and deeply affecting. Maurice Riordan describes the poet as a "latter-day troubadour, whose gloomy, wayward, excessive poems deserve a wide audience", and this selection of poems with their "plangent music and vibrant textures" in this fine translation will certainly make its mark throughout the English-speaking world.

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Immanuel Mifsud was born in Malta in 1967. He writes poetry and prose and also children’s literature. In 2002 he won the Malta National Award with his third collection of short stories, and in 2011 he won the European Union Prize for Literature with his poetical novel In the Name of the Father (and of the Son), which has since been translated into English (Midsea Books) and French (Gallimard, forthcoming). In 2005 Southword (Cork) published his poetry collection Confidential Reports, translated by Maurice Riordan, and in 2014 IRIU (Slovenia) published a selection of his poems.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Arc Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1908376678
• ISBN 13: 9781908376671
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 104
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