Claims Office

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

The Claims Office is the debut collection from one of the rising young stars of British poetry. Dai George's work is characterised by a mix of rebellious energy and unflinching satire: 'nature' poems that are often anti-nature; lively pieces about the metropolises of London and New York; skewed love poems like 'Plans with the Unmet Wife'.Poems about his native Wales alternate between the elegiac and the edgy, displaying a suspicion of authority and a reluctance to conform to nationalist cliché that places him in the lineage of poets like RS Thomas, Robert Minhinnick, Duncan Bush, John Ormond and Mike Jenkins."Lavish, well-executed... lyrics that seek to communicate directly with the reader."– Jane Holland, Poetry SocietyDai George was born in Cardiff in 1986 and has studied in Bristol and New York. He has had poems and critical articles published on Guardian Online, and in Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review and others. His poetry has appeared in several anthologies, including the Salt Book of Younger Poets (2011; ISBN 9781907773105) and Best British Poetry (Salt, 2013; ISBN 9781907773556). Often returning to his native Wales, he now lives and teaches in London.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-09-30
Mått:139 x 216 x 6 mm
Vikt:104 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:64
Förlag:Poetry Wales Press
ISBN:9781781720905

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Mer om författaren

Dai George is a poet, novelist and critic from Cardiff, now living in London. His first poetry collection was The Claims Office (Seren, 2013), and his next one, titled Karaoke King, will be published in 2021. He works as reviews editor for Poetry London, and his first novel, The Counterplot, is available as an Audible Original.

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Dai George seems to me to offer something new to Welsh, and to British poetry. In fact, perhaps the poet he most reminds me of is the leading Northern Irish poet of the newer generation, Alan Gillis, not in terms of direct stylistic commonalities, but in that both these poets can and do switch successfully between a higher, lyrical style and something closer to demotic narrative. The diversity of Dai's style has been aided by the rigours of an MFA at Columbia - one of the best places anywhere to study poetry - where he has been introduced to wider ideas which have formed his work as a young poet away from the dominant influences of current British poetry. I expect Dai to fulfil his promise and to deliver a strong first collection in the next year or two. - Roddy Lumsden. "It doesn't matter whether this is a first collection or not. Many poets will struggle to produce work as exciting as this, no matter what number collection they are on. But the fact that there is certainly more to come from this highly talented poet is the most exciting thing of all. Dai George has got a big part to play in the future of poetry, and well beyond Wales. The Claims Office is where this all starts." - Carl Griffin, Wales Arts Review