
Full Blood
John Siddique(Author)
Salt Publishing
Will be published approx. on 1. April 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-84471-824-5 (ISBN)
Description
Intelligent, sensual, highly erotic, manly and beautifully mortal - Full Blood is the result of a fifteen-year labour of love. This is literature in its most empowered state, and poetry at its most radical, lyrical and affecting. Full Blood invites you in easily, and then turns into one of those books that you can't put down because it has become your close friend.
John Siddique was born in 1964. His discovery of his local library when young began his life-long love affair with what words mean and how they sit together. He is the bestselling author of Recital - An Almanac, Poems From A Northern Soul, The Prize and now Full Blood. He is the co-author of the story/memoir Four Fathers.
He has contributed poems, stories, essays and articles to many publications, including Granta, The Guardian, Poetry Review, and The Rialto.
The Prize, published to wide acclaim in 2005, was nominated for the Forward Prize. His children's book Don't Wear It On Your Head was shortlisted for the CLPE Poetry Award in 2007. On publication in 2009, Recital was described as "one of the most important British poetry books of the last twenty years" by Lauri Ramey of CSULA. Jackie Kay describes Siddique's writing as "A brilliant balancing act."
Siddique is admired for his captivating readings and his infectious love of literature. He teaches poetry and creative writing in the UK and abroad, and has worked with The British Council, The Arvon Foundation, The Poetry School and The Poetry Society. He has a website at www.johnsiddique.co.uk
John Siddique was born in 1964. His discovery of his local library when young began his life-long love affair with what words mean and how they sit together. He is the bestselling author of Recital - An Almanac, Poems From A Northern Soul, The Prize and now Full Blood. He is the co-author of the story/memoir Four Fathers.
He has contributed poems, stories, essays and articles to many publications, including Granta, The Guardian, Poetry Review, and The Rialto.
The Prize, published to wide acclaim in 2005, was nominated for the Forward Prize. His children's book Don't Wear It On Your Head was shortlisted for the CLPE Poetry Award in 2007. On publication in 2009, Recital was described as "one of the most important British poetry books of the last twenty years" by Lauri Ramey of CSULA. Jackie Kay describes Siddique's writing as "A brilliant balancing act."
Siddique is admired for his captivating readings and his infectious love of literature. He teaches poetry and creative writing in the UK and abroad, and has worked with The British Council, The Arvon Foundation, The Poetry School and The Poetry Society. He has a website at www.johnsiddique.co.uk
Reviews / Votes
Siddique's new poetry collection contains powerful reflections on love, loss, war, peace and alternative modes of living for these days of financial and political turmoil. In one sequence, The Knife, he discusses racism in northern England; in another, Reclaiming the Body, love and sex are described with tender honesty. Technically virtuosic yet direct and sensual, this is a collection I keep returning to. -- Claire Chambers * Times Higher Education Supplement *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
172 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84471-824-5 (9781844718245)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
John Siddique was born in 1964. His discovery of his local library when young began his life-long love affair with what words mean and how they sit together. He is the bestselling author of Recital - An Almanac, Poems From A Northern Soul, The Prize and now Full Blood. He is the co-author of the story/memoir Four Fathers. He has contributed poems, stories, essays and articles to many publications, including Granta, The Guardian, Poetry Review, and The Rialto.
Content
Contents
Prologue
Every Atom
Via Negativa
Thirst
The Knife
Love Poem
Memorial Day
Mary
One Monday Afternoon in Mytholmroyd
Rachel Last Springtime
Coffee Mornings
The Learning Skin
The Last Poem
Kabul
One Hundred
One Hundred
Afghanistan 1970, Stopped
Filey
Blue
I Think of You
Parenthesis
Blackbird, Silence Your Shrill Song
My Beautiful Fantasist
Pig
There Were Birds
True Roses of England
Reclaiming the Body
Name
Between the Words
Adultery
Most of the Things That Need to be Seen
are Seen with the Eyes Closed
Lightly
Green Dogs
For Our Final Fuck of the Afternoon
Sunday
Love Poem
Via Negativa
The Tree of Life
Making
Detail
Unwritten
Circumnavigations
Trial One - The Root of the Root
Circumnavigations
Trial Two - Ritual of the Sun
Circumnavigations
Trial Three - Action
Circumnavigations
Trial Four - Sin Eating
Circumnavigations
Trial Five - A Gospel of Silence
(Pygmalionism)
Circumnavigations
Trial Six - Shadows
Circumnavigations
Trial Seven - Love and the Body
Tree of Life
Xibulba
Lustre
Xibulba
Why?
Full Blood
Gauntlets
We Will Wake at Dawn
Mary
Blackpool Rock
Rain Song
How to Sleep
How to Become a Moth
On Becoming a Writer
Bailero
The Road
Become
Eagle
Love Poem
Jali
Kitying
Abha
Maria
Junmo
Flowing
Sky Burial
A Place of Silence
Prologue
Every Atom
Via Negativa
Thirst
The Knife
Love Poem
Memorial Day
Mary
One Monday Afternoon in Mytholmroyd
Rachel Last Springtime
Coffee Mornings
The Learning Skin
The Last Poem
Kabul
One Hundred
One Hundred
Afghanistan 1970, Stopped
Filey
Blue
I Think of You
Parenthesis
Blackbird, Silence Your Shrill Song
My Beautiful Fantasist
Pig
There Were Birds
True Roses of England
Reclaiming the Body
Name
Between the Words
Adultery
Most of the Things That Need to be Seen
are Seen with the Eyes Closed
Lightly
Green Dogs
For Our Final Fuck of the Afternoon
Sunday
Love Poem
Via Negativa
The Tree of Life
Making
Detail
Unwritten
Circumnavigations
Trial One - The Root of the Root
Circumnavigations
Trial Two - Ritual of the Sun
Circumnavigations
Trial Three - Action
Circumnavigations
Trial Four - Sin Eating
Circumnavigations
Trial Five - A Gospel of Silence
(Pygmalionism)
Circumnavigations
Trial Six - Shadows
Circumnavigations
Trial Seven - Love and the Body
Tree of Life
Xibulba
Lustre
Xibulba
Why?
Full Blood
Gauntlets
We Will Wake at Dawn
Mary
Blackpool Rock
Rain Song
How to Sleep
How to Become a Moth
On Becoming a Writer
Bailero
The Road
Become
Eagle
Love Poem
Jali
Kitying
Abha
Maria
Junmo
Flowing
Sky Burial
A Place of Silence