Music's Duel. New and Selected Poems 1972-2008 - Selerie, Gavin
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Music's Duel gathers work from across the Gavin Selerie's career, combining major sequences or extracts with a range of less available material, some previously unpublished. Placed together for the first time, these texts form an extended record of self and world, their focus twisting to reflect thought and language process. From a complex weave the book yields clarity and beauty, as in the treatment of landscape, death and desire. It is possible to see a development from heady, romantic pastoral to more satirical, closely-wrought urban texts, although continuities of concern and technique are…mehr

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Music's Duel gathers work from across the Gavin Selerie's career, combining major sequences or extracts with a range of less available material, some previously unpublished. Placed together for the first time, these texts form an extended record of self and world, their focus twisting to reflect thought and language process. From a complex weave the book yields clarity and beauty, as in the treatment of landscape, death and desire. It is possible to see a development from heady, romantic pastoral to more satirical, closely-wrought urban texts, although continuities of concern and technique are evident. Distinguished by metaphysical wit and wordplay, Selerie's poetry excites both ear and eye. Genres and devices are torqued so as to enable the lyric tradition to operate within a fragmented sound and social context.
Autorenporträt
Gavin Selerie (1947-2023) was born in London. He taught at Birkbeck, University of London for many years. His books include 'Azimuth' (1984), 'Roxy' (1996) and 'Le Fanu's Ghost' (2006)-all long sequences with linked units. 'Music's Duel: New and Selected Poems 1972-2008' was published by Shearsman in 2009. This includes a good deal of fugitive material, besides more widely available work. Selerie collaborated with the writer and artist Alan Halsey, notably in the book 'Days of '49' (1999). His work appeared in anthologies such as 'The New British Poetry' (1988), 'Other: British & Irish Poetry since 1970' (1999) and 'The Reality Street Book of Sonnets' (2008). His poems generally involved a layering of voices through history and landscape. He wrote extensively about London, reflecting his roots (an Italian family in Soho and an English family of wood-carvers). He has been a core member of the London poetry scene since the 1970s. His final large-scale publications were 'Hariot Double', which juxtaposes renaissance and modern elements, and 'Collected Sonnets' (Shearsman Books, 2019).