Same Difference - Softcover

Wilkinson, Ben

 
9781781726488: Same Difference
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1781726485 ISBN 13: 9781781726488
Verlag: Seren, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

This ambitious new collection from poet and critic Ben Wilkinson finds its author experimenting with poetic voice and the dramatic monologue. Carefully crafted yet charged with contemporary language, the book brims with everyone from cage fighters to boy-racers, cancer patients to whales in captivity. Several poems unpick the preconceptions and prejudices that can inform so many of our encounters—with the world, art, and one another—while others take a sideways glance at everything from male depression to the history of meat-eating; from the philosophy behind athletic competition to surreal yet familiar emotions. Notable here are poems that wrestle with the mystery of failed and successful relationships, both providing moments of transcendence and despair. There are well-observed pieces about sport, particularly the rewards of running, from a noted devotee. While empathetic and often moving, Same Difference is a collection that seeks to undermine the confessional mode, keeping the reader on their toes and asking just who is doing the talking. It is also formally elegant, often using traditional rhyme and metre to weave its arguments.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ben Wilkinson lives in Sheffield, Yorkshire. His poems and criticism regularly appear in national publications including The Guardian, New Statesman, The Poetry Review, The Spectator, and the Time Literary Supplement. His debut full collection of poems, Way More Than Luck, was published by Seren in 2018 and won a Northern Writers Award. A critical study, Don Paterson: Writers and their Work, appeared in 2021. With Kim Moore and Paul Deaton he co-edited The Result Is What You See Today (2019), an anthology of poems about running. He lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Bolton.

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Verlag
Seren
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1781726485
ISBN 13 
9781781726488
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
61
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