
Face
Brendan Cleary(Author)
Pighog (Publisher)
Published on 3. October 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
70 pages
978-1-906309-44-2 (ISBN)
Description
From a series commemorating a brother to love poems of great simplicity and truth, Cleary's work has the uncanny ability to make the mundane astonish and the other worldly intimate. Face includes three sections of poetry: 'Face', 'In Company' and 'The Ward'. Cleary's distinguished style and intimacy with language addresses incomprehensible loss with profound clarity. His use of dialect commemorates a time and place with a rare honesty, marking this collection a work of profound depth.
Reviews / Votes
'Elegies so tender and entire they make us feel, for a long moment, that 'everyone is lighter / & the world might never end'. Brendan Cleary is a master of concision, letting the unsaid speak properly'. - Helen Mort. 'The poems in Face mourn and celebrate, elegize and eulogize. They are electric with grief, but they also sizzle with commitment'. - Martin Mooney.More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Brighton
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
230 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-906309-44-2 (9781906309442)
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Person
Originally from Northern Ireland, Brendan Cleary is one of the UK's most distinctively gifted poets and a master in the art of teaching poetry. He is the editor of the punky DIY magazine The Echo Room and has been published extensively in journals, anthologies and in single-author collections such as Tears in the Burger Store (1985), White Bread and ITV (1990), The Irish Card (1993), Stranger in the House (2001), Jackson (Pighog, 2004) and Some Turbulent Weather (2008). Tall Lighthouse recently published Brendan's Goin' down slow: selected poems 1985-2010. Brendan's newest collection The Poet's Notebook, published by Pighog, is an essential poetry manual for aspiring poets.
Content
Contents i Face Face Week Before February Afternoon Breakfast with Face Ringing Pete Pebbledash DVD For Kelvin Legend The Amblehurst Andy The Eagles Champions League Visits ii In Company im Tommy Killen Dada Physics It's Our Dance In Company His Boots Lincoln Tomatoes Some Love Poems At the Track The Name is Frank Not Yet Scott Kipling Gareth's Bath Everything Forecast iii The Ward Her Smile Rosemary's Visit New Spring Little Wing Back Home The Hospital that Night