Rotten Days in Late Summer
Autor Ralf Webben Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 mai 2021
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection
'Impressive . . . tender, unflinching'Guardian
'This is poetry in the grand tradition of annihiliation by desire. It's what the young are always learning, and the old, if they are wise, never forget'Anne Boyer, author ofThe Undying
'Brilliant . . . heralds the arrival of a frank and vital poetic voice'Sharlene Teo, author ofPonti
'Frank and alert . . . an important voice in British poetry'Eley Williams, author ofThe Liar's Dictionary
'Direct and heart-breaking'Alex Dimitrov, author ofLove and Other Poems
'A rare thing . . . razor-sharp'Julia Copus, author ofThis Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew
InRotten Days in Late Summer, Ralf Webb turns poetry to an examination of the textures of class, youth, adulthood and death in the working communities of the West Country, from mobile home parks, boyish factory workers and saleswomen kept on the road for days at a time, to the yearnings of young love and the complexities of masculinity.
Alongside individual poems, three sequences predominate: a series of 'Love Stories', charting a course through the dreams, lies and salt-baked limbs of multiple relationships; 'Diagnostics', which tells the story of the death from cancer of the poet's father; and 'Treetops', a virtuosic long poem weaving together grief and mental health struggles in an attempt to come to terms with the overwhelming data of a life.
The world of these poems is close, dangerous, lustrous and difficult: a world in which whole existences are lived in the spin of almost-inescapable fates. In searching for the light within it, this prodigious debut collection announces the arrival of a major new voice in British poetry.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141992730
ISBN-10: 0141992735
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141992735
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Ralf Webb grew up in the West Country. He co-ran the Swimmers pamphlet and event series, and from 2017 to 2021 was managing editor of The White Review. Recently, he ran the Arts Council England-funded PoetryxClass reading group project. His writing has appeared widely, including in the London Review of Books, Poetry Review, PAIN, Prototype, Hotel, Oxford Poetry and Fantastic Man. This is his first collection.
Recenzii
It's
a
rare
thing
to
come
across
a
debut
collection
as
cohesive
and
accomplished
asRotten
Days
in
Late
Summer.
Whether
writing
on
love,
class,
illness,
the
working
life,
death
or
the
complex
and
multi-faceted
nature
of
human
desire,Ralf
Webb
is
never
less
than
razor-sharp.
With
a
storyteller's
flair,
he
evokes
a
world
of
shifting
terrains
in
which
'anything
could
be
an
omen',
and
where
refrains,
motifs,
stanza
shapes
and
rhymes
call
to
each
other
across
the
pages.In
his
extraordinary
'Treetops'
sequence,
Webb
navigates
the
labyrinths
of
mental
illness
and
the
ambiguous
prize
of
health
.
.
.
It
all
feels
gloriously,
anarchically
new
This is close-range language, magnifying without prejudice both the beautiful and the hard. Ralf Webb's poetry tells the truth of the push-pull of liberation and obligation . . . To work, to care, to mourn, but also to be a poet and queer and . . . dream of a commune in France -this is poetry in the grand tradition of annihilation by desire. It's what the young are always learning, and the old, if they are wise, never forget
His poems take on grief and young manhood, and are largely set in England's West Country. 'Accept this cheap and ironclad cynicism,' Webb writes. 'We're not famous. I am completely in love.'The voice in this book is direct and heart-breaking. There's no pretension. It's all heart
Webb's collection concerns captivation and captivity, its dignities and its violences, withfrank and alertcomplexity. Be it in remembered school corridors, the careening horizons of grief or longed-for resolutions within and without desire, he presents the strange within the recognisable and the recognisable within the strange.A careful-bold, important voice in British poetry
Ralf Webb is an ethnographer of the present. He is interested in everyday life in the extreme. What we find is that "There is a goodness here, somewhere, there is sense in struggle."Equal parts ode, litany, and menace,Rotten Days in Late Summeropens us up to the agon of the new century
This is close-range language, magnifying without prejudice both the beautiful and the hard. Ralf Webb's poetry tells the truth of the push-pull of liberation and obligation . . . To work, to care, to mourn, but also to be a poet and queer and . . . dream of a commune in France -this is poetry in the grand tradition of annihilation by desire. It's what the young are always learning, and the old, if they are wise, never forget
His poems take on grief and young manhood, and are largely set in England's West Country. 'Accept this cheap and ironclad cynicism,' Webb writes. 'We're not famous. I am completely in love.'The voice in this book is direct and heart-breaking. There's no pretension. It's all heart
Webb's collection concerns captivation and captivity, its dignities and its violences, withfrank and alertcomplexity. Be it in remembered school corridors, the careening horizons of grief or longed-for resolutions within and without desire, he presents the strange within the recognisable and the recognisable within the strange.A careful-bold, important voice in British poetry
Ralf Webb is an ethnographer of the present. He is interested in everyday life in the extreme. What we find is that "There is a goodness here, somewhere, there is sense in struggle."Equal parts ode, litany, and menace,Rotten Days in Late Summeropens us up to the agon of the new century