The Secret Frontiers
Published on 15. September 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-1-904634-67-6 (ISBN)
Description
The secret frontiers of these poems extend between the fantastic images of people from remote cultures and the indigenous poet in a shared quarter of the city; the glimpsed frontiers between the pasts and presents of places; the virtual boundaries between scenes from across the world and their instant arrival as news. They are even found here between championship football and its archetypal roots. Thus the secret frontiers cross the endless zones of transformation between external world and the interior landscapes that make poetry.
Reviews / Votes
'Ours is an ecological age and Judy Gahagan confronts its formidable challenge with a sharp sensitivity and life-wisdom. With a striking lyrical grace her poems explore not only the habitats of dispossessed people but, also, the abiding power of Nature and our creative place within it. Again and again, her poems take us beyond the global hype and connect us to an infinitely larger universe. They are essential acts of restoration and readjustment; an eco-poetics in action.' Peter Abbs'Judy Gahagan is a writer always in her own skin, always apart from what she observes yet, at the same time, imaginatively and passionately engaged with it. Her prevailing focus in this book is on strangeness and otherness. But otherness is neither assimilated to the familiar, nor rejected; it's given a new embodiment through wonderfully fresh and accurate language.' Carole SatyamurtiMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-904634-67-6 (9781904634676)
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Person
Judy Gahagan has worked as a psychologist, teacher, journalist and ballet school pianist. She has also been a tutor in psychology and social sciences for the Open University in Rome. She is now a translator and a tutor for The Poetry School. Her last collection was Night Calling (Enitharmon Press, 2003).