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Adam Piette (Ed.) & Katy Price (Ed.) The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson |
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Biographical
note: Adam Piette is a Professor at the University of Sheffield, author of Remembering and the Sound of Words and Imagination at War. His current project concentrates on Cold War culture. He is Reviews Editor for The European Journal of English Studies, contributes a poetry section to The Reader, guest-edited a special issue of Translation and Literature on modernism and translation and helped set up the Edwin Morgan Centre for Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. Biographical note: Katy is Lecturer in English and course leader for Creative & Professional Writing at Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge. She is writing a book on astronomy, sex and friendship in the 1920s, focusing on William Empson and Arthur Eddington. Katy writes poetry and curates experimental poetry events in Cambridge; she also convenes the Cambridge Science & Literature Reading Group and is Communications Officer for History of Science at the BA Festival of Science.
BIC Basic EAN13: 9781844712441
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Short
description/annotation: This is a collection of essays about the contemporary Liverpool poet, Peter Robinson. His poetry is subtle and moving about domestic scenes of intense feeling, and shows how one might get through difficult experiences including the rape of a loved one, a brain tumour operation, the condition of exile in Italy and Japan, the perils of raising children. The essays aim to help ordinary readers and students gain insight into Robinson’s subtle, astonishing poems.
Main description: With eight superb collections of poems as well as a Carcanet Selected, editor of the important Cambridge school journal Perfect Bound in the 1970s, author of three monographs on twentieth century poetry and several collections of translations, Peter Robinson is a major poet unjustly marginalized by circumstances. Robinson's poetry is subtle, penetrating and alert in its depth and breadth: capable of meticulous, expansive cultural critique as well as moving attention to difficult, ‘ordinary’ life experiences. The febrile fields in which the work operates – poetry of the North, 1970s avant-garde, Cambridge school, engagement with art and postwar culture, poetry about Italy/Europe, Japan and travel poetry of ‘abroad', poetry of intense domestic relational crisis, hospital texts and fatherhood poems – are complemented by critical interrogation of the responsibilities and ethics of poetry in the twentieth century as well as the championing of European poets in the translation enterprises. It is because the work is so complexly ‘non-aligned’ and hard to place on the cultural map of contemporary poetry that we are sure that the volume will be a rewarding and stimulating companion to this excellent poet.
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