Description
'Ach! I misspoke. What I mean to say is this ...' In Long Pass, Joey Connolly's first collection, the poet - in love, in puzzlement, in frustration or in elegy - keeps catching himself out, starting again. He wants to speak truthfully. He wants to say things simply. But nothing is as simple as it seems at first. Nothing strikes the interlocutor quite as he intends. Ach! He goes back. Deflections, tangents: the long pass, the long unfolding sentence, the growing sequence, move away from what they intend to say in order at last, wittily, angrily, ironically, to swerve in and say it.Translation, too, is hard. There are often competing versions - of Lorca, for example, and Cavafy. ' The painter is frustrated to be always / painting onto something, to be / concealing precisely as he displays.' Words reveal and at the same time conceal, yet what they conceal is part of what they want to say.The poet throws the poem for someone who isn't always there to catch. The fortunate reader intercepts.
Lead contributor to Carcanet's bestselling New Poetries VI anthologyKey performer on the London poetry scene and manager of the Poetry Book FairEric Gregory award winnerLong Pass explores the problems of communication in a complex societyA lively book which engages with the question of poetry's responsibility or ability to represent direct, honest communication, in a time of polarising opinions on that subjectWith some of the spring and reach of the New York School take, but combined with a more English emphasis on the confessing narrator.Coming out of a scene of early career London poets with a growing reputation, including Rebecca Perry, Sarah Howe, Mark Waldron, John Clegg and Crispin Best, amongst many others
About the Author
Joey Connolly grew up in Sheffield and studied in Manchester. Now he lives in London, where he is the manager of the Poetry Book Fair. His poetry and criticism have appeared in The Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Sunday Times and Best British Poetry 2014 (Salt), as well as on BBC Radio 4. He received an Eric Gregory award in 2012.
Reviews
'A North-of-England Cavafy' - David Wheatley, The Guardian; 'Long Pass, for its humour, strange voicings, playfulness, and ability to move the reader, should be celebrated.' - New Welsh Review on Long Pass
Book Information
ISBN 9781784103286
Author Joey Connolly
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Lead contributor to Carcanet's bestselling New Poetries VI anthologyKey performer on the London poetry scene and manager of the Poetry Book FairEric Gregory award winnerLong Pass explores the problems of communication in a complex societyA lively book which engages with the question of poetry's responsibility or ability to represent direct, honest communication, in a time of polarising opinions on that subjectWith some of the spring and reach of the New York School take, but combined with a more English emphasis on the confessing narrator.Coming out of a scene of early career London poets with a growing reputation, including Rebecca Perry, Sarah Howe, Mark Waldron, John Clegg and Crispin Best, amongst many others
About the Author
Joey Connolly grew up in Sheffield and studied in Manchester. Now he lives in London, where he is the manager of the Poetry Book Fair. His poetry and criticism have appeared in The Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Sunday Times and Best British Poetry 2014 (Salt), as well as on BBC Radio 4. He received an Eric Gregory award in 2012.
Reviews
'A North-of-England Cavafy' - David Wheatley, The Guardian; 'Long Pass, for its humour, strange voicings, playfulness, and ability to move the reader, should be celebrated.' - New Welsh Review on Long Pass
Book Information
ISBN 9781784103286
Author Joey Connolly
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
