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Arguing with Malarchy
Carola Luther
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Description for Arguing with Malarchy
Paperback. A long awaited second Carcanet collection from Carola Luther. Num Pages: 82 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 207 x 7. Weight in Grams: 116.
Arguing with Malarchy is full of voices: tender, sinister or angry, they compel us to attend to their realities, the glimpsed depths of their stories, the distances they have travelled. Carola Luther's poems are alert to the ways a life can be briefly snared in the turn of a phrase - or in the moment when lanaguage fails. She explores silence, absences, the unspoken communication between animals and human beings, the pauses and boundaries between what is remembered, forgotten or invented, the living and the dead. In the book's first part, a chronicle of mourning writes out of the silence ... Read more
Arguing with Malarchy is full of voices: tender, sinister or angry, they compel us to attend to their realities, the glimpsed depths of their stories, the distances they have travelled. Carola Luther's poems are alert to the ways a life can be briefly snared in the turn of a phrase - or in the moment when lanaguage fails. She explores silence, absences, the unspoken communication between animals and human beings, the pauses and boundaries between what is remembered, forgotten or invented, the living and the dead. In the book's first part, a chronicle of mourning writes out of the silence ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
82
Condition
New
Number of Pages
82
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847770936
SKU
V9781847770936
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-23
About Carola Luther
Carola Luther was born in South Africa in 1959 and moved to the UK in 1981. Her first collection Walking the Animals (Carcanet) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2004. Her poems ahve appeared in various journals and anthologies and she collaborates with the jazz musician Jenni Molloy. She lives and works in Yorkshire.
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