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An entertaining guide to history's most influential and inspiring poets – from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara – and how they can teach us to better understand the world around us.How did the greatest poets in history make the world anew? And what can we learn from the magic, wisdom and humour of their poetry? From the genius of the Ancient Greeks through to the love poetry and metaphysics of the Renaissance, through to the New York poets of the 20th century, this is the ultimate guide to the greatest writers of the human age.Through short, biographical portraits, poet and writer Dai George provides an entertaining introduction to the great works of poetry, and a welcoming guide to how we can read them. He addresses questions poets have grappled with: How can we truly describe the world? How can we express love, grief or friendship? How can poetry help us to understand justice, dreams or anger?This book paints vivid pictures of a global selection of renowned poets throughout history: from Sappho, Li Bai and Rumi, to William Shakespeare and John Donne, to Frank O Hara, Pablo Neruda and Sylvia Plath. George also seeks to re-examine the canon, traditionally dominated by Western, white and male poets, and bring to light major figures from other important cultures and communities, including China, India and the Caribbean.
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An entertaining guide to history's most influential and inspiring poets – from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara – and how they can teach us to better understand the world around us.How did the greatest poets in history make the world anew? And what can we learn from the magic, wisdom and humour of their poetry? From the genius of the Ancient Greeks through to the love poetry and metaphysics of the Renaissance, through to the New York poets of the 20th century, this is the ultimate guide to the greatest writers of the human age.Through short, biographical portraits, poet and writer Dai George provides an entertaining introduction to the great works of poetry, and a welcoming guide to how we can read them. He addresses questions poets have grappled with: How can we truly describe the world? How can we express love, grief or friendship? How can poetry help us to understand justice, dreams or anger?This book paints vivid pictures of a global selection of renowned poets throughout history: from Sappho, Li Bai and Rumi, to William Shakespeare and John Donne, to Frank O Hara, Pablo Neruda and Sylvia Plath. George also seeks to re-examine the canon, traditionally dominated by Western, white and male poets, and bring to light major figures from other important cultures and communities, including China, India and the Caribbean.
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'An entertaining guide to the rhyme and reason of poetry' -- The IdlerHow history's most influential and inspiring poets – from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara – can teach us to better understand the world.How did the greatest poets in history make the world anew? And what can we learn from the magic, wisdom and humour of their poetry? From the genius of the Ancient Greeks through to the love poetry and metaphysics of the Renaissance, through to the New York poets of the 20th century, this is the ultimate guide to the greatest writers of the human age.Through short, biographical portraits, poet and writer Dai George provides an entertaining introduction to the great works of poetry, and a welcoming guide to how we can read them. He addresses questions poets have grappled with: How can we truly describe the world? How can we express love, grief or friendship? How can poetry help us to understand justice, dreams or anger?This book paints vivid pictures of a global selection of renowned poets throughout history: from Sappho, Li Bai and Rumi, to William Shakespeare and John Donne, to Frank O'Hara, Pablo Neruda and Sylvia Plath. George also re-examines the canon, traditionally dominated by Western, white and male poets, and bring to light major figures from other important cultures and communities, including China, India and the Caribbean.
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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.
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The poems in Dai George's Karaoke King stand poised at the brink: they move through turbulent times and chronicle both uncertainty and joy. The poet’s tone is one of tender irony and pointed reflection. He conveys the uneasiness of a generation trying to evolve progressive values, to embrace a rapidly changing society, to recognise their privilege. As well as the pressure of developing careers and private lives, there is also a pressing need to address the emergency of climate change.It is there in the uneasiness of ‘Aisles’ where a supermarket offers plenitude but a close look at the supply chains unearths exploitation of both farmed animals and farm workers at far ends of the earth. But amidst this plethora of challenges, there is solace and hope, often in the simple joys of a park, or a café, and the poet is sustained by a deep love of music. Likewise, close personal relationships are essential and redemptive.Also in this collection are other heroes and anti-heroes, versions of damaged masculinity, tarnished by fame and/or drugs, David Bowie’s Thin White Duke, Dustin Hoffman lurking at Cannes. In the title poem, George brings together the collection’s themes of performance, anxiety and belatedness via the figure of the Karaoke King, a tragic hero combining both bravado and heartbreak, drunkenness and bruised glory, as he sings to a gallery of fallen idols in a ghostly lock-in. Growing up in South Wales brings the author examples to both parody and emulate. The collection explores and interrogates Welsh Identity via the Karaoke King’s ‘toxic’ male voice choir, and seeks to be a work that deepens and complicates the engagement with Welsh working class histories and family myths. Thoughtful readers will enjoy this artful new collection by Dai George.