Missing - Softcover

Povey, Malcolm

 
9780993149092: Missing
Softcover
ISBN 10: 099314909X ISBN 13: 9780993149092
Verlag: PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Malcolm Povey began writing these poems when Jackie, his wife of forty years, a teacher, painter and print-maker, was diagnosed with cancer. After her death in 2008 he found himself stranded on ‘grief’s glacier’, adrift ‘on loss and loneliness’ and talking to his dead wife. Missing is part of that continuing conversation. Refusing the consolations of religion, or comforting ideas about an afterlife or an immortal soul, he forces himself to contemplate the unbearable facts of death, and that his wife is now beneath ‘six feet of indifferent earth’, her ‘loveliness gone underground’.

Missing is a book about illness and death and loss, the meanings we seek in death and find in life. It is a book about the stark pain of suffering, but it is also a book about love and warmth and solidarity. Learning to live with the ‘ever-present absence’ of his wife, Malcolm Povey insists that people are worth loving, that love does not die with the flesh, that poetry can sometimes help us cut through the well-meaning drivel the bereaved must often suffer when those that they love die first, and that we survive in the memories and practices of those left behind, the mingled joy and sorrow of a remembered gaze, giggle, conversation or caress.

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Verlag
PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
099314909X
ISBN 13 
9780993149092
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
116
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