Verwandte Artikel zu But & Though

But & Though - Softcover

Hawkey, Jake

 
9781035048106: But & Though
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1035048108 ISBN 13: 9781035048106
Verlag: Picador, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

'Hawkey's poems are electric, buzzing with all the possibilities of language. He has much to say, and is saying it brilliantly' – Nick Laird, winner of the Forward Prize for Poetry and author of Up Late

The characters that live and breathe in Jake Hawkey’s impressive debut poetry collection are playful and spiritual, often both defensive and desperately vulnerable. Taking its title from the language of addiction, with its circles of prevarication and excuse, But & Though leads us on a boy’s journey through a childhood overshadowed by parental alcoholism.

These are poems on the move in the tapestry of London life – from the hospital ward to the back rows of the bus – where the desire for escape is also, paradoxically, a ‘Herculean search for home’. But & Though is a testament to the kinship ties that bind us together, however fraught they become, and a celebration of the working-class identity that defines the poet’s native south London. With a voice as spiky and irreverent as it is gentle, Jake Hawkey is a refreshing new talent in English poetry.

'This collection moved me to tears. It is not only daring and accomplished, it is real and written by a young man who has been on a long dark journey and found himself with light in his writing hand' - Sally Read, editor of 100 Great Catholic Poems

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jake Hawkey was born in 1990 and grew up in Woolwich. He studied Fine Art at the University of Westminster and holds an MA in Poetry from Queen’s University, Belfast. His moving and hard-hitting collection grew out of an investigation into addiction within families for his PhD research, informed by his own experience of south London’s socio-political class dynamics. Hawkey’s poems are published in several journals and anthologies, including Hold Open the Door (UCD, 2020), The Honest Ulsterman and Proletarian Poetry. He has had sculpture works commissioned and has read his poems internationally, including on Beale Street, Tennessee, and at L’Abri Fellowship, Massachusetts. He was selected for Poetry Ireland’s Introductions series in 2020. His chapbook Breeze Block appeared from Lumpen/The Class Work Project in 2020. But & Though is his debut collection.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Picador
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1035048108
ISBN 13 
9781035048106
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
112
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Picador
https://www.panmacmillan.com/picador

Units 1 & 2 Chater Court
Market Deeping
Lincs
PE6 8AH
Vereinigtes Königreich
Verantwortliche Person
Macmillan Publishers International Limited
generalproductsafety@macmillan.com

(1st Floor, The Liffey Trust Centre, 117-126 Sheriff Street Upper, Dublin 1
Dublin
Irland