Brendan Doyle
Autor(a) de Meditations with Julian of Norwich
Obras por Brendan Doyle
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- Obras
- 3
- Membros
- 96
- Popularidade
- #196,089
- Avaliação
- 3.2
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 3
- Línguas
- 1
I read somewhere recently that a common difficulty with first books of poetry is that they lack thematic or structural coherence. In this book, structure seems to have been deliberately avoided: it would have been easy enough to group these poems into, say, commentary on current affairs, travel poems, nonsense poems, nature poems and family matters, but there seems to have been a deliberate decision not to do so. For what it’s worth, I think it was a good decision: it has given us a book where each poem stands alone, responding to its own occasion, whether it be a political commentator’s callousness, the bitter-sweetness of a child-access arrangement, or ash from a bushfire falling on Sydney Harbour. The result is a subliminal democratising suggestion that readers could make poetry from their own occasions.… (mais)