A Wind-Up Collider
Published on 22. March 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
108 pages
978-1-84861-666-0 (ISBN)
Description
Like any self-respecting cloud, the words of this, Dent’s latest volume, have occasion to slip into and out of focus as well as flit between meanings. To recognise such moments is to ensure we are party to an intrigue more about delight and imagination than dissecting (or, heaven help us, directing) a life. An eye for weather (physical / mental) is a cannier companion here than any Baedeker or mind that frets. To be fully present within the action of the text is to see that what we’d first interpreted as ‘the finishing line’ was, shockingly, ‘birds migrating’. The mind is vulnerable, matter is contrary, life is in a state of flux. ‘Skip all that tosh about modelling clouds: for every big storm / or soul in torment, I’ve a shedful of u/s machinery.’ This resourceful and energetic new collection acknowledges not just the world we (think we) know but the many and various others. Being here, being reactive to ‘all that is’, is key.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
148 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84861-666-0 (9781848616660)
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Peter Dent was born in Forest Gate, London, but has spent most of his life in Surrey and Devon. A teacher for twenty years, he is now retired, devoting the greater part of his time to writing. He was the editor/publisher of Interim Press from 1975 to 1987, where he published numerous volumes of poetry and essays on such writers as George Oppen, Lorine Niedecker, Thomas A. Clark and Allen Upward. With others he has translated from the Sanskrit and Urdu. His own work, both poetry and prose-poetry, has been published widely in magazines and anthologies both in Britain and abroad.