Description
"Boy Thing is a thing of wonder. These are poems that negotiate anew the tender, hurt territory of a boy abruptly unfathered with every fresh reading; and that travel into the wonderment of becoming a father of boys. We are given a boy's-eye-view of 1970s Cornwall with a music and detail so meticulous that we yearn with Clarke for its lost territories. But these are not just poems of archive or archaeology; they are revelatory, dynamic and raw. Clarke is crucially attuned to the secret messages received in boyhood - its preoccupations and awakenings, epiphanies and abuses, and its shames. This book is unmissable: human and humane, grimy and sublime." - Fiona Benson "Boy Thing is a beautiful book - sensual, atmospheric, full of nature and ritual. These poems while formally precise, possess a rawness that is startling and utterly compelling." - Ella Frears
About the Author
John Wedgwood Clarke trained as an actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and holds a D.Phil. in Modernist poetics from the University of York. He is currently Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Centre for Environmental and Marine Sciences at the University of Hull, Scarborough, and teaches poetry on the part-time creative writing degree at the University of Hull. His poems and critical writing have appeared in various publications including, most recently, Best British Poetry 2012. In 2010 he was also shortlisted for the Manchester Poetry Prize. "His work is amongst the best to have emerged from new poets in this country over the past two or three years." - Simon Armitage He is co-Artistic Director of Sea Swim.
Book Information
ISBN 9781911469339
Author John W. Clarke
Imprint Arc Publications
Publisher Arc Publications
About the Author
John Wedgwood Clarke trained as an actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and holds a D.Phil. in Modernist poetics from the University of York. He is currently Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Centre for Environmental and Marine Sciences at the University of Hull, Scarborough, and teaches poetry on the part-time creative writing degree at the University of Hull. His poems and critical writing have appeared in various publications including, most recently, Best British Poetry 2012. In 2010 he was also shortlisted for the Manchester Poetry Prize. "His work is amongst the best to have emerged from new poets in this country over the past two or three years." - Simon Armitage He is co-Artistic Director of Sea Swim.
Book Information
ISBN 9781911469339
Author John W. Clarke
Imprint Arc Publications
Publisher Arc Publications
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