If All the World and Love Were Young
Autor Stephen Sextonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2024
Winner of the E. M. Forster Award
Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize
Shortlisted for the John Pollard Poetry Prize
ASunday Times,New StatesmanandTelegraphBook of the Year 2019
'Every poem in this book is a marvel. Taken all together they make up a work of almost miraculous depth and beauty' Sally Rooney
'A poetry debut fit to compare with Seamus Heaney. This wonderful long poem is up there with the greats'Sunday Times
When Stephen Sexton was young, video games were a way to slip through the looking glass; to be in two places at once; to be two people at once. In these poems about the death of his mother, this moving, otherworldly narrative takes us through the levels ofSuper Mario World, whose flowered landscapes bleed into our world, and ours, strange with loss, bleed into it. His remarkable debut is a daring exploration of memory, grief and the necessity of the unreal.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781943667086
ISBN-10: 194366708X
Pagini: 136
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: WAKE FOREST UNIV PR
ISBN-10: 194366708X
Pagini: 136
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: WAKE FOREST UNIV PR
Notă biografică
Stephen
Sexton
lives
in
Belfast.
His
poems
have
appeared
inGranta,
POETRY,
andBest
British
Poetry
2015.
His
pamphlet,Oils,
was
the
Poetry
Book
Society's
Winter
Pamphlet
Choice.
He
was
the
winner
of
the
2016
National
Poetry
Competition,
the
recipient
of
an
ACES
award
from
the
Arts
Council
of
Northern
Ireland,
and
was
awarded
an
Eric
Gregory
Award
in
2018.
Recenzii
The
most
impressive
debut
collection
of
the
year
so
far:
beautiful,
sincere
and
unexpectedly
heartbreaking
An astonishing debut...The writing itself hardly draws breath; it's crowded and confident in range and depth...If poetry is "about" anything, thenIf All the Worldis about cancer, bereavement, family life, natural and material worlds and the nature of memory. Despite this range it is quite astonishingly through-composed....it is a book to gulp down at one sitting, then to return to, to savour
A poetry debut fit to compare with Seamus Heaney. This wonderful long poem is up there with the greats...A wonderful piece of writing
Every poem in this book is a marvel. Taken all together they make up a work of almost miraculous depth and beauty
The best poetry of the year so far
Stephen Sexton's collectionIf All the World and Love Were Younghas a playful quality and a lightness of touch that he somehow combines with the jagged-ness of grief to make a sequence of poems that is very fresh and eerily beautiful. It is clear from the first lines that this is a debut of significance, one that achieves a most difficult balancing act between wildness and control.
There's virtuosity aplenty in Stephen Sexton's poetry debutIf All the World and Love Were Young, too. Imagery and emotion interweave in a work of astonishing maturity by the young Northern Irish poet, whose impressive new voice promises to help refresh contemporary verse.
Poignant, playful yet disarmingly sincere, it's the year's best debut
This is an extraordinary, moving collection of poems whose dense, constrained forms are the forms the intellect takes when it is coping; the self takes when it can, as it must; when the subject envelopes. This book is as rich and sustaining, as memorable and inimitable as is the loved one's voice. You will follow it across the Causeway, into the beached whale in Donegal, into the pixelated hyacinths and the heavy rain. With the munificent vocabulary of Alan Gillis and the gut-punched wisdom of Anne Sexton and Denise Riley, the speaker claims: 'I tried to make a monument from the emptiness of the house.' Sexton has made a monument. Readers: crowd around it.
A remarkable requiem for the poet's mother and for the worlds of childhood imagination...a beautiful, vital, generous work of art
This book of poetry is far beyond wondrous. A thing of devastating beauty ... anyone that loves language and has lost someone dear to them will drink this book down like an elixir. Even the book title seems to have an entire symphony in it. Thank you #stephensexton. This book is a gift to anyone that reads it. As it was for me
An astonishing debut...The writing itself hardly draws breath; it's crowded and confident in range and depth...If poetry is "about" anything, thenIf All the Worldis about cancer, bereavement, family life, natural and material worlds and the nature of memory. Despite this range it is quite astonishingly through-composed....it is a book to gulp down at one sitting, then to return to, to savour
A poetry debut fit to compare with Seamus Heaney. This wonderful long poem is up there with the greats...A wonderful piece of writing
Every poem in this book is a marvel. Taken all together they make up a work of almost miraculous depth and beauty
The best poetry of the year so far
Stephen Sexton's collectionIf All the World and Love Were Younghas a playful quality and a lightness of touch that he somehow combines with the jagged-ness of grief to make a sequence of poems that is very fresh and eerily beautiful. It is clear from the first lines that this is a debut of significance, one that achieves a most difficult balancing act between wildness and control.
There's virtuosity aplenty in Stephen Sexton's poetry debutIf All the World and Love Were Young, too. Imagery and emotion interweave in a work of astonishing maturity by the young Northern Irish poet, whose impressive new voice promises to help refresh contemporary verse.
Poignant, playful yet disarmingly sincere, it's the year's best debut
This is an extraordinary, moving collection of poems whose dense, constrained forms are the forms the intellect takes when it is coping; the self takes when it can, as it must; when the subject envelopes. This book is as rich and sustaining, as memorable and inimitable as is the loved one's voice. You will follow it across the Causeway, into the beached whale in Donegal, into the pixelated hyacinths and the heavy rain. With the munificent vocabulary of Alan Gillis and the gut-punched wisdom of Anne Sexton and Denise Riley, the speaker claims: 'I tried to make a monument from the emptiness of the house.' Sexton has made a monument. Readers: crowd around it.
A remarkable requiem for the poet's mother and for the worlds of childhood imagination...a beautiful, vital, generous work of art
This book of poetry is far beyond wondrous. A thing of devastating beauty ... anyone that loves language and has lost someone dear to them will drink this book down like an elixir. Even the book title seems to have an entire symphony in it. Thank you #stephensexton. This book is a gift to anyone that reads it. As it was for me