
Turning
Selected Poems 1995-2020
Scott Thurston(Author)
Shearsman Books (Publisher)
Published on 13. October 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
152 pages
978-1-84861-877-0 (ISBN)
Description
"Thurston's poems always danced, as the early writings here demonstrate, in line and spacing, long before dance as a practice became his poetic focus and his ethical metaphor for other modes of action and introspection. They always measured a world to be moved into, fine lines across fine distinctions. His texts become cues for performance, in performance, but just as important is the insistent voice of the poem as it becomes increasingly the voice of the poet: restless, relentless, carrying us with it. This is all for us: 'in dancing your own rite you don't/ do it for yourself.' This is crystallized in the culminating triumph of the lockdown sonnet sequence, 'A Hard Grief'; it reaches out from our shared resignation and hope. We're all 'searching/ for the shapes that shadowed the meaning/ until the flow showed up', and Thurston is our invaluable lead." -Robert Sheppard
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
234 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84861-877-0 (9781848618770)
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Person
Scott Thurston is a poet and mover living in Manchester, UK where he co-runs The Other Room poetry reading series, and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Salford. He has published widely on innovative poetry, including a book of interviews entitled 'Talking Poetics' (Shearsman Books, 2011). His own poetry has been widely published, in volumes from Shearsman Books, Contraband and The Knives, Forks and Spoons Press.