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  • ISBN-13: 9781800174535
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By James Womack
  • Price: AUD $29.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 25/10/2024
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 128 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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This collection thinks about two main things: the efforts we make as individuals to find some form of connection between ourselves, and the efforts we make as a group to connect to the environment we live in. Written in the shadow of the climate crisis and the pandemic years, the poems work hard to find some points of hope and unity against a shared background of disruption and collapse, a background to which we are often wilfully blind.
James Womack was born in 1979. He is the author of three previous collections of poetry with Carcanet: Misprint (2012), On Trust: A Book of Lies (2017) and Homunculus (2020). He is also an award-winning translator, and has translated widely from Spanish and Russian, including works by Vladimir Mayakovsky (' Vladimir Mayakovsky' and Other Poems, Poetry Book Society Translation Choice Winter 2016), Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Manuel Vilas and Camilo Jose Cela. He lives in Cambridge.
• Previous collection Homunculus was a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year • Fourth collection from award-winning poet and translator James Womack explores how we form connections with one another and the environment with wit and humour • Written in the shadow of the climate crisis and the pandemic years, these poems work and play to find points of hope and unity against a shared background of disruption and collapse • Views the collapsing modern world with ancient eyes: the shadow of Cassandra, the Trojan princess who was given the gift of prophecy but condemned to have no one believe her words, falls across the whole collection • Teaches Modern & Medieval Languages at Fitzwilliam College (University of Cambridge)
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