Wilderness Party

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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With its flighty parables and skewed morality tales, The Wilderness Party is an unforgettable record of turbulent times. These are poems of finely-wrought musicality, bristling energy and playful excess. From cream cakes on Shetland to Camberwick Green, from Lyuba the Siberian mammoth to the madness of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, A.B. Jackson approaches personal and historical events with a mixture of wit and wonder. Included in the opening section of individual lyrics is 'Treasure Island', winner of the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition. The series 'Natural History' takes a spirited linguistic tour through Pliny the Elder in Elizabethan translation to uncover the myths, mysteries, and uncanny familiarities of animal behaviour. In the twenty-one short fictions of 'Apocrypha', high ideals cavort with low befuddlement as re-cast Biblical characters attempt to make sense of the modern world. The Wilderness Party is Jackson's long-awaited follow-up to his Forward Prize-winning first collection Fire Stations. Poetry Book Society Recommendation..

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Utgivningsdatum2015-09-30
Mått138 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt126 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor72
FörlagBloodaxe Books Ltd
ISBN9781780372600

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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.

ACTS 13 Acts 14 A Modified Earthquake Scale 16 Heatwave Three Messerschmidt Heads 17 The Incapable Bassoonist 18 The Difficult Secret 19 The Artist as he Imagined Himself Laughing 20 Treasure Island 22 Romantic Interlude 23 Easter Monday 26 Foxes 27 The Godwit 28 Saint Brigid of Blackwaterfoot 29 An Enquiry Concerning Mouse Brightness 31 Time 32 The Find 34 'Camberwick Green' NATURAL HISTORY 39 Of Elephants 40 Of Lions 41 Of the Crocodile 42 Of Bees 43 How creatures find Physicall remedie 44 Of Swine 45 Of Mice and Rats APOCRYPHA 49 I 'Ruth at sunrise' 50 II 'The Apocalypse of Judas' 51 III 'Bed-head Lazarus' 52 IV 'Judith' 53 V 'Gasps, cries' 54 VI 'Adam's jaw' 55 VII 'Adam lay miraculous' 56 VIII 'Abraham' 57 IX 'Barabbas' 58 X 'High noon' 59 XI 'Moses' 60 XII 'Daniel's ear' 61 XIII 'Flame-throwing Seraph' 62 XIV 'A waterfall' 63 XV 'Sarah' 64 XVI 'Close, these two' 65 XVII 'Pigs in spring' 66 XVIII 'Jezebel' 67 XIX 'Borders closed' 68 XX 'Balding young Noah' 69 XXI 'Gethsemane' 71 NOTES

At A.B. Jackson's Wilderness Party you never know quite what will happen at the next inventive and fantastical turn of thought – always elegantly dressed and poised, working with beautiful musical control, Jackson's poems in this collection are wired for unpredictable play and fancy. Wryly volatile and resistant, his language is open at every step to the high-energy transformations that spark from the metrical and harmonic patternings of his phrasing.