It's marked on all the maps and stories of its wonders abound but, for some mysterious reason, whenever we set off for the island we never seem to arrive. Starting with legendary voyages of failed or faked discovery, reality and illusion collide in poems that question how we see and know, and in which finding our island depends as much on navigating uncharted seas within, as on mastery of the stars.
'Pilot Songs explores the elusive, hallucinatory and darkly-enticing mysteries, wonders and perils of the oceans. Here are journeys across seas within and without, to islands real or enchanted, driven by compelling visions of possible, or perhaps impossible, archipelagoes floating in the balance. Each poem, rich with lucid beauty and precise lyric revelation, charts its own voyage, through sightings, "never-findings" and starry discoveries, into the unknown.'
Nick Drake
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Maße
Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-915968-08-1 (9781915968081)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Paul O'Prey's poem collections include Fleet (The Melos Press, 2021) and Mappa Mundi (The Melos Press, 2023). He is the editor of two best-selling anthologies, Poems from the Front (Imperial War Museum. 2014) and Counter-Wave: Poetry of Rescue in the First World War (Dare-Gale Press, 2018). He has edited the Selected Poems of Robert Graves, Laurence Binyon and Mary Borden. Other works include a study of the novels of Graham Greene and a translation from the Spanish, with Lucia Graves, of Emilia Pardo Bazan's The House of Ulloa (Penguin Classics, 2013). He is Professor Emeritus of Modern Literature and University Fellow at the University of Roehampton, London.
