Voyage of St Brendan

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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In The Voyage of St Brendan, A.B. Jackson tells the tale of the legendary seafaring Irish abbot in poetry and prose. After burning a book of fantastical stories, Brendan is compelled to sail the ocean with a crew of six monks in a leather-skinned currach; his task, to prove the existence of wonders in the world and create a new book of marvels. Discoveries include Jasconius the island-whale, a troop of Arctic ghosts, a hellmouth of tortured souls, a rock-bound Judas, and the magical castle of the boar-headed Walserands.Although the roots of this legend lie in early Irish tales and the Latin Voyage of Brendan the Abbot of the ninth century, Jackson has taken the 14th-century Middle Dutch version of Brendan’s voyage as the template for this engaging, witty and spirited interpretation, notable for its humour and inventiveness.The book is beautifully illustrated with a series of black and white linocuts by the American artist Kathleen Neeley, one of which features in colour on the cover.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-06-24
Mått156 x 234 x 198 mm
Vikt156 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor80
FörlagBloodaxe Books Ltd
ISBN9781780375663

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A.B. Jackson was born in Glasgow in 1965 and raised in the village of Bramhall, Cheshire. After moving to Cupar in Fife he studied English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. His first book, Fire Stations (Anvil), won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2003, and a limited edition pamphlet, Apocrypha (Donut Press), was published in 2011. In 2010 he won first prize in the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition. His second collection, The Wilderness Party (Bloodaxe Books, 2015), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The Voyage of St Brendan is published by Bloodaxe Books in 2021.

11 Brendan14 The Burning of the Book15 The Boat16 Brendan’s Meditation17 The Crew18 Shore Song19 The Great Fish22 The Mermayd23 Thirsting Souls24 The Coagulated Sea26 The Cliff-top Monastery27 Interlude28 The Rock Saint29 Hellmouth32 The Siren33 The Stolen Bridle34 Devils’ Mountain36 Respite37 Brendan’s Vision39 Many Fish40 The Turf Rider42 Judas43 Burning Birds44 Multum Bona Terra47 The Walserands48 The Sea Leaf50 The Sea Serpent52 A World Below53 The New Book54 Home56 Burial59 Notes68 Select bibliographyIllustrations by Kathleen Neeley13 St Brendan21 Jasconius31 Hellmouth46 The Walserands51 The Sea Serpent57 Burial

A swirl of animals and monsters and miraculous things, an amazing sea voyage in the way of Coleridge’s Rime and Melville’s Moby-Dick, A.B. Jackson’s imaging of Brendan’s founding myth is a modern fable of the patron saint of whales. Jackson’s exquisitely subtle, uproarious, comical and transcendent work is extraordinarily concise and beautiful. Its words relish and reinvent The Voyage of St Brendan as a Dark Age rollercoaster ride.