Matthew Sweeney

My Life as a Painter (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Matthew Sweeney's palette in My Life as a Painter - his twelfth collection - features a wild mix of birds and animals: lizards, snakes, rats, camels, donkeys, feral cats, dogs and owls. One dog transmits telepathic requests for the food he wants, and there's a parrot who speaks as ambassador for the bird world. Sweeney's canvas here is the transhuman: where boundaries between human and non-human can't be fixed, dreams turn into torments, secrets stay hidden, strange communiqués remain unclear, and the natural weirdness of his native Donegal verges on the surreal. There are poems ostensibly about art, artists and filmmaking which are as much portraits of the poet and the difficulties of writing poetry. Other poems offer oblique perspectives on religion, warfare, migration and displacement; or go off at a tangent to explore the imaginative possibilities of everything from Michigan's Mullett Lake and the geysers of Iceland to rope-ladders, tin-mines, a giant blue cabbage and an old thrown-out Christmas tree.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloodaxe Books
• Seitenzahl: 90
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780374154
• Artikelnr.: 52466792

Autorenporträt

Matthew Sweeney was born in Co. Donegal, and lived in London from 1973 until the late 90s. After living in Berlin and Timisoara for some years, he returned to Ireland and now lives in Cork. His books include two collections from Secker; five books from Cape: The Bridal Suite (1997), A Smell of Fish (2000), Selected Poems (2002), Sanctuary (2004), Black Moon (2007); and three from Bloodaxe, Horse Music (2013), Inquisition Lane (2015) and My Life as a Painter (2018). Black Moon was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award. Horse Music, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, won the inaugural Pigott Poetry Prize in association with Listowel Writers' Week . He is a member of Aosdána.