Description
Unexhausted Time inhabits a world of dream and dawn, in which thoughts touch us 'like soft rain', and all the elements are brought closer in.
Feelings, messages, symbols, visions . . . Emily Berry's latest collection takes shape in the half-light between the real and the imagined, where everything is lost and yet 'nothing goes away'. Here life's innumerable impressions, moods, seasons and deja vus collect and disarrange themselves, while a glowing, companionable 'I' travels the mind's landscapes in hope of refuge and transformation amid these displaced moments in time. Whether one reads Unexhausted Time as a long poem to step into or a series of titled and untitled fragments to pick up and cherish, the work is healing and inspiring, always asking how we might harness the power of naming without losing life's 'magic unknownness'. By offering these intangible encounters, Emily Berry more truly presents 'what being alive is'.
'Emily Berry has a refreshingly free, not to say incendiary, approach to poetry.' Observer
Unexhausted Time inhabits a world of dream and dawn, in which thoughts touch us 'like soft rain', and all the elements are brought closer in.
About the Author
Emily Berry is the author of Dear Boy (2013) and Stranger, Baby (2017). She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Book Information
ISBN 9780571373840
Author Emily Berry
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 115g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 133mm * 7mm
