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Aaron Kent - Selected Poems 2013-2026, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Selected Poems 2013-2026

Av Aaron Kent

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Aaron Kent's poems break mid-sentence. One clause starts, another finishes it, and what comes out of the join is usually grief, class, or a joke told at the worst possible moment. Selected Poems draws on thirteen years of work. The poems move between the tin coast of west Cornwall and a hospital ward at three in the morning, between night terrors and the ordinary things that carry on regardless. Kent writes trees rooted in the throat, a hole in the moon the size of a mechanic, a raccoon watching over a coma, ensuring surrealism has, at its core, a political edge. Throughout, threads of sleeplessness and fatherhood persevere, with his children arriving in these poems as luck, as terror, as the reason to keep count of the small moons of Saturn. He elegises without solemnity and argues politics at conversational volume. There is nobody else in Britain writing like this.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-10-02
  • Mått: 140 x 216 x 6 mm
  • Vikt: 117 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 90
  • Förlag: Shearsman Books
  • ISBN: 9781837380534
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Aaron Kent is a working-class Cornish poet. He has written for the BBC, Mind, and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and his poems have appeared in Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Rialto, and Poetry Wales, and been translated into Hungarian, German, and Welsh. Previous collections include The Working Classic and Angels the Size of Houses. He lives in west Wales with his wife and two children, and is the founder of Broken Sleep Books.

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"...from my vantage, it seems to me any discussion of the most important figures in poetry in the U.K. at present would have to include Aaron Kent. ...I chase his work down as soon as it appears, eager to make fresh contact with English at one of the spots where it is most alive. His Selected Poems 2013-2026 demonstrates why." -Shane McCrae"These poems reveal a poet of wide reach, intent and purpose, with poems that amaze, challenge, and rip away assumptions. We meet foxes purring about redemption, we sail the long river of the unconscious. We share the pain of the poet's insomnia, we go into pubs armed with boxing gloves and a can of socialism. [...] The complex webwork of familial relationship, generational memory, and dialogue with the past gives these poems additional impact. Throughout, an imagination is at full stretch, and craft and confidence is at work in every line." -Penelope Shuttle "Aaron Kent has created a densely woven and yet 'open' poetics of confrontation. Steeped in a sometimes grim but always rejuvenating irony, he offers a manifesto of survival wrought out of loss. [...] He has given us poems that embody love, parenthood, marriage, body and environment, to guide us towards complex ways of understanding physical and conceptual health. [...] This is poetry at a slant to privilege. This is also a poetry about reclaiming the damaged body." -John Kinsella

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