Through
Published on 28. April 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-78410-256-2 (ISBN)
Description
The poems in Through resume David Herd's inquiry into the language of public space taken up in All Just (2012). Here, five extended texts address the ways in which contemporary public language has been rendered officially hostile. Considering the risks that such official hostility poses to human intimacy, Through sets out to register broken affections, to re-explore possibilities of solidarity and trust. Countering the enclosures of public discourse, the poems embrace instead 'a language in transition', one in which meaning is multiple, 'echoing into place a genuine and subsisting relationship'.
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'One of the few truly necessary works of poetry written on either side of the Atlantic in the past decade.' Los Angeles Review of BooksMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
113 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78410-256-2 (9781784102562)
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Person
David Herd is a poet, critic, teacher and activist. He has given readings and lectures in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, the USA and the UK, and his poems, essays and reviews have been widely published in magazines, journals and newspapers. His collections of poetry include All Just (Carcanet, 2012) and Outwith (Bookthug, 2012), and his recent writings on the politics of human movement have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Parallax and Almost Island. He is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Kent and a co-organiser of Refugee Tales.