
Pattern-book
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Threaded through with filaments of others' poems - from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Emily Dickinson to Gwendolyn Brooks - Pattern-book's sonnets, couplets, quatrains and invented forms draw on family life, art history, grief, time and the natural world. Woven of recurring images, Lorsung's delight in form brings pattern to vivid life.
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'In her vibrant and stirring UK debut, Lorsung offers a mesmerising portrait of the silent patterns that paint our world. From the sprinkle of snow across a sidewalk to the scatter of crumbs on a tablecloth, each metaphor in this collection unfolds like a mural, deliciously rich in colour, texture and tone.'Jade Cuttle, The Observer 'Her technical pattern-book is far from rigidly formal: the shaping of poems is a larger enterprise, though disciplined, and the patterning of her own world, present and past, expresses itself in a multiplicity of images that connect across geographical space and time, childhood, family, landscape.'
Carol Rumens, The Guardian
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Photo credit Ann Bartges, 2024
Content
- Front Cover
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Half Title
- Spelling
- Postcard to Shana with photo of Washington Avenue Bridge (Minneapolis)
- Simile
- Sonnet for ordinary time
- Wrappers
- Second born
- Three and four swans
- The kingdom of childhood
- Neighbourhood spells
- Bramble cutting
- Linnaean system
- Rose country inventory
- Minneapolis, early spring
- Vocational education
- Sonnet for the second-language speaker
- Sonnet for the philosophy of language
- Drawing
- February mother
- Broken Blue and White Handled Mug, Maker Unidentified
- The moon over Magritte's landscape
- Postcard to Shana with photograph of Floraliën Ghent, 1913
- The garden at the edge of the world
- Desiderata
- A note on early Flemish painting
- Waterway connecting the city to the sea: image and commentary
- Signification
- Painting in nine parts
- Corona Borealis
- Sonnet with a quotation from Millay
- Singing
- Autumn song
- Minuscule sequence
- Attunement
- Pointilisms
- Our England
- About a month
- Elegies
- Postcard to Shana with drawing of blackbirds
- Everything solid melts into air
- Self-study
- Along the Leie, fields full of the memory
- Sonnet in early spring
- Poem for your brother
- History of the highways of the United States
- Sonnet for October to March
- Family math
- Hemispheric shift
- Wake
- An ampler - zero -
- Acknowledgements
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