The Invention of Zero
Published on 28. June 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-1-85224-773-7 (ISBN)
Description
Chris Greenhalgh's distinctive third collection is a book of sensuous meditations on time and mortality, love and art. At its heart is a suite of prose poems. Intimate in tone, formally experimental and lyrically charged, they pick up and develop threads from his title, "The Invention of Zero". Like his first two books, Greenhalgh's new collection is alive with vivid imagery and narrative excitement. At once passionate and ironic, dark and witty, the poems are acutely observed and enjoy a new depth of feeling. His language is sensitive, exact, and alert to the layered and luminous surfaces as well as the discontinuities of modern life. There is an urgency and immediacy to Greenhalgh's latest work that makes it contemporary and playful but also emotionally compelling, tender and true.
Reviews / Votes
Entertaining and bizarre... When Chris Greenhalgh gets it right, which he often does, he is very good indeed. -- Nick Laird * Times Literary Supplement * Sheer brilliance of language carries its own zest in easy intimacy. Greenhalgh writes with all his senses alert. -- Bill Turner * Poetry Review *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Tyne and Wear
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85224-773-7 (9781852247737)
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Person
Chris Greenhalgh won a Gregory Award in 1992. He has published three collections with Bloodaxe: Stealing the Mona Lisa (1994), Of Love, Death and the Sea-Squirt (2000), and now The Invention of Zero (2007). His novel Coco and Igor was published by Headline in 2002, and made into a film with his screenplay. Born in Manchester, he lived for several years in Italy and Athens before returning to the UK to complete a doctoral thesis on postmodern American poetry. He is currently Academic Deputy Head of Sevenoaks School in Kent.