Description
Below This Level recounts the experience of prostate cancer: diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. These poems of tender affirmation and discovery also face up to the hard facts. Their expansive lyricism is dedicated to a sustained recognition of the kindness and intelligence of others.
About the Author
Kelvin Corcoran lives in Brussels. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including most recently Facing West, 2017, the Medicine Unboxed-sponsored Not Much To Say Really, 2017, and Article 50, 2018. The sequence `Helen Mania' was a Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice and the poem `At the Hospital Doors' was highly commended by the Forward Prize jury 2017. His work is the subject of a study edited by Professor Andy Brown, The Poetry Occurs as Song, 2013. He edited an account of the poetry of Lee Harwood in Not the Full Story: Six Interviews with Lee Harwood, 2008. In addition his poetry has been commissioned to accompany travelling Arts Council exhibitions of British modernist art. He has collaborated with various musicians and composers both in performance and recording, producing the CD A Thesis on the Ballad with The Jack Hues Quartet. His work has been anthologised in the UK and the USA and translated into Greek and Spanish. He is guest editor of Shearsman poetry magazine.
Book Information
ISBN 9781848616844
Author Kelvin Corcoran
Page Count 36
Imprint Shearsman Books
Publisher Shearsman Books
Weight(grams) 60g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm
About the Author
Kelvin Corcoran lives in Brussels. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including most recently Facing West, 2017, the Medicine Unboxed-sponsored Not Much To Say Really, 2017, and Article 50, 2018. The sequence `Helen Mania' was a Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice and the poem `At the Hospital Doors' was highly commended by the Forward Prize jury 2017. His work is the subject of a study edited by Professor Andy Brown, The Poetry Occurs as Song, 2013. He edited an account of the poetry of Lee Harwood in Not the Full Story: Six Interviews with Lee Harwood, 2008. In addition his poetry has been commissioned to accompany travelling Arts Council exhibitions of British modernist art. He has collaborated with various musicians and composers both in performance and recording, producing the CD A Thesis on the Ballad with The Jack Hues Quartet. His work has been anthologised in the UK and the USA and translated into Greek and Spanish. He is guest editor of Shearsman poetry magazine.
Book Information
ISBN 9781848616844
Author Kelvin Corcoran
Page Count 36
Imprint Shearsman Books
Publisher Shearsman Books
Weight(grams) 60g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm
