We Go On

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

This is a book about the irreducible core of what it is to be human in a world that changes constantly yet repeats and repeats. It uses images that speak to a place in us that does not depend on fashion but braves that over-used word 'archetypal'. It is mostly specific to a landscape the author knows very well yet sometimes ventures beyond, always with the awareness that fear is our constant companion, but also joy.Its title holds an echo of Beckett: 'I must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on' (from his novel 'The Unnameable'), and holds something of this despair, while holding to the irrational conviction of 'being enclosed by light'. Her work, as Claire Askew has noted, is 'a dark and gorgeous hymn to mortality'. It recognises that all localness is part of humanness; that the dominance of one sort of humanness to the exclusion of another sort diminishes all humanness, representing both loss and the degradation of the whole.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-02-22
Mått:138 x 216 x 7 mm
Vikt:136 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:80
Förlag:Bloodaxe Books Ltd
ISBN:9781780377018

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Kerry Hardie was born in 1951, grew up in County Down., and now lives in Co. Kilkenny. She published six collections with Gallery Press in Ireland: A Furious Place (1996), Cry for the Hot Belly (2000), The Sky Didn’t Fall (2003), The Silence Came Close (2006), Only This Room (2009) and The Ash and the Oak and the Wild Cherry Tree (2012). Her Selected Poems was published in Ireland by Gallery and in Britain by Bloodaxe in 2011. Her most recent collections, The Zebra Stood in the Night (2014), Where Now Begins (2020) and We Go On (2024) are published by Bloodaxe in Britain and Ireland. The Zebra Stood in the Night was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award.

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Her poems are deeply personal yet have a mythic quality… The cycle of the seasons turns throughout the book. The poet is aware of that cycle beginning to close in on her too…to face that is to embrace life itself.

Innehållsförteckning

9 Search10 Tangled11 Elsewhere12 We Go On13 On Trauma, Sickness, Loss15 The Task16 Grief17 At the Château Lavigny, Switzerland18 Where Do We Live19 Walls Are Meant to Fall Down20 How Was It That You Stayed So Long?21 Whose Is the Song?22 We Disassemble That First Home23 Anniversary24 September Light25 The Coracle Called Trust-Me26 Anxiety27 Against Darkness28 Thirteen29 The Muse Is a Red Dog33 Breakdown34 And I’m wondering how it has come to this,35 Achill Lines36 The Courage Coin37 Those ‘Homes’38 Just Another Bomb, Belfast 197439 Yesterday40 The New Dead41 Herself42 Impasse44 Trees in Late May45 Small Poem46 Cygnets47 Pain48 Shell People49 Vikings50 Black Radishes53 The Departure54 World, World55 News from Ireland, 134856 Choosing Clothes for My Mother58 Back Where We Began59 Domestic War60 John Anderson, My Jo61 The Transparent Kaleidoscope63 The Ground under My Feet64 Witness65 A Fable66 ‘…but I’d rather you didn’t tell anyone…’67 Borders68 Empires69 december’s leavings70 In the End It Is a Very Private Struggle71 Collecting the Colony 72 Post-war Story73 That Box74 Daughter of the House75 Freshwater Swim76 When Oranges Were Spanish77 Making Sense of Things78 Inviolate80 Notes