As a said place - Hall, John
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blink / and the outline is lost As a said place gathers together poems written since Keepsache (2011). The book is shaped around 'I'm on the Train', a sequence prompted by and on a repeated train journey from home to work through parts of Devon and Cornwall. It returns to the spirit of John Hall's early book, Days. In each case the poems arise from the contingencies of the everyday and respond to the language demands that these seem to make. Before and after this sequence are clusters of individual poems, including the title poem, a fragmentary meditation suggested by reading the philosopher,…mehr

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blink / and the outline is lost As a said place gathers together poems written since Keepsache (2011). The book is shaped around 'I'm on the Train', a sequence prompted by and on a repeated train journey from home to work through parts of Devon and Cornwall. It returns to the spirit of John Hall's early book, Days. In each case the poems arise from the contingencies of the everyday and respond to the language demands that these seem to make. Before and after this sequence are clusters of individual poems, including the title poem, a fragmentary meditation suggested by reading the philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas. All the poems share a sense that poetry, among its other qualities, is also a mode - or a set of modes - of thinking: the saying of the world continues to matter, as does its unsaying, and that this by no means brings ease: the broken lines that constitute poetry negotiate ambivalent relations with the continuities of speech, with syntax, with the carefulness of thought.
Autorenporträt
John Hall was born in 1947 in Merredin, a country wheatbelt town in Western Australia. Here he developed a love for country life and nature. When he was married to Margaret, he lived in the City of Perth, the capital of Western Australia. Here in Perth, where three sons were born to them, Hayden, Joshua and Eliot. During his mid-forties, John began a personal growth journey which made him ask questions on human life and nature, resulting in this book.