Once

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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Once is the journey from boyhood to the threshold of manhood of poet Andrew McNeillie. From an aeroplane crossing north Wales the middle-aged writer looks down on the countryside of his childhood and recalls an almost fabulous world now lost to him. Ordinary daily life and education in Llandudno shortly after the war are set against an extraordinary life lived close to nature in some of the wilder parts of Snowdonia. Continually crossing the border between town and country, a fly-fisherman by the age of ten, McNeillie relives his life in nature during a period of increasing urbanisation.Once is a beautifully written eulogy for a retreating countryside now valued more for its leisure potential than as a repository of nature and source of human fullfilment. The narrative is underlain by a way of thinking informed by the natural world and by nature poetry, and is an evocative and memorable book about the nature of experience of memory and writing.Andrew McNeillie was born in north Wales in 1946 and read English at Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the Literature Editor at Oxford University Press; in 2002 he established the Clutag Press to publish poetry. He has published three collections of poetry, Nevermore (2000) which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, Now, Then (2002) and Slower (2006). He also published the memoir An Aran Keening (2001), about his life in Ireland, to which Once is the prequel.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-06-04
Mått:135 x 208 x 41 mm
Vikt:245 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:196
Förlag:Poetry Wales Press
ISBN:9781854114969

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Andrew McNeillie's poetry collection Nevermore (Carcanet 2000) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Having recently left his post at Oxford University Press, McNeillie is now a Professor of English at the University of Exeter. He is also founder of the Clutag Press and the literary magazine Archipelago.

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This poetic and evocative book glories in the delights of both memory and writing.A" The Western Mail [McNeillie's writing] strikes off at bold and sparkling tangents. His prose is rhythmic, humorous, contagiously energetic with underlying melancholic strains of loss and longing.A" New Welsh Review