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The Abandoned Settlements
James Sheard
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Description for The Abandoned Settlements
Paperback. Features poems about love and leaving, of how the rift of departure brings on a kind of haunting - of the people involved and the places where they lived - an emotional trace of departed lives and loves. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 9. Weight in Grams: 84.
Shortlisted for the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize PBS Autumn Recommendation The poems in James Sheard's remarkable third book are about love and leaving, of how the rift of departure brings on a kind of haunting - of the people involved and the places where they lived - an emotional trace of departed lives and loves. This is what these poems are: the scars of separation, the spoors of desire. Sheard writes powerfully about loss, about how the vestiges of significance, of sensual heat, are retained by structures - in ghost towns, war-zones, deserted villages or ... Read more
Shortlisted for the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize PBS Autumn Recommendation The poems in James Sheard's remarkable third book are about love and leaving, of how the rift of departure brings on a kind of haunting - of the people involved and the places where they lived - an emotional trace of departed lives and loves. This is what these poems are: the scars of separation, the spoors of desire. Sheard writes powerfully about loss, about how the vestiges of significance, of sensual heat, are retained by structures - in ghost towns, war-zones, deserted villages or ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910702475
SKU
V9781910702475
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About James Sheard
James Sheard was born in Cyprus in 1962, and spent his childhood abroad, mainly in Singapore and Germany. As an adult, he spent periods living in Hamburg and Helsinki. His debut collection, Scattering Eva, was shortlisted for the 2005 Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Glen Dimplex Award for Poetry. Dammtor was published in 2010. He lives in ... Read more
Reviews for The Abandoned Settlements
For at his best, James Sheard can be effortlessly moving, and clever - but not for the sake of it.
Rory Waterman
Times Literary Supplement
Rory Waterman
Times Literary Supplement