Description
Answerlands is the place children go in their minds when looking for a correct answer without really thinking. It is also a fairy-tale world of quest, resolution and dissolution, glimpsed in a teacher's dream. And it is nightmare country, disfigured by fear and systemic violence.
Joe Minden's second collection, Answerlands, explores the curiosity-destroying, harmful potential of school even as it celebrates the erring minds of teacher and student, which make encounter possible.
About the Author
Joseph Minden is a poet and schoolteacher. His first collection, Poppy (Carcanet, 2022), was a poetry Book of the Year in The Daily Telegraph and History Today, recommended by the LRB Bookshop, and highly commended in The Forward Prizes.
Reviews
'This is exciting and ambitious new writing - nothing less than a visionary calendar of a vividly singular personal and working life, privately haunted by familiars from Shakespeare, legend and Russian folktale. Complex and highly sensory in its almost hallucinatory alertness to place and time, Answerlands gives us Joseph Minden at the top of his inventive powers as well as at his most honest and self-reflective, pressing himself 'outwards, that simplicity against the texture of the world, / the world as what it is'.
Jane Draycott
Book Information
ISBN 9781800175174
Author Joseph Minden
Format Paperback
Page Count 118
Imprint Carcanet Poetry
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
