
The Shield
Lyndon Davies(Author)
Parthian Books (Publisher)
Published on 2. June 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
70 pages
978-1-906998-17-2 (ISBN)
Description
At the heart of this book is an image from Homer: the great shield which Hephaestus forged for the warrior, Achilles. In his second collection, Lyndon Davies attempts to imagine a shield for the complexities of the current era. What emblems would it carry? Who and what might it be protecting and against what, in a world in which oppositions are at once agonisingly entrenched and radically compromised? In the bristling arena of the shield, the narratives flash and jostle...The poems are interspersed with the powerful drawings of Penny Hallas, texts and visual images forming one troubling, many-dimensional work.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cardigan
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
141 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-906998-17-2 (9781906998172)
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Persons
Lyndon Davies is the author of "Hyphasis." His poetry has appeared in the anthologies "Poetry WalesForty Years" and "The Pterodactyl s Wing." Penny Hallas is an artist and art therapist who is involved with Poetry Jamboree, a festival in Hay on Wye."