David Morley

The Gypsy and the Poet (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Beginning with the real-life encounter between the poet John Clare and a Gypsy named Wisdom Smith, David Morley reinvigorates the sonnet sequence to stage the fellowship that develops between the two men. We see the Gypsy and the poet banter, argue and teach each other lessons; work, love, and lose what they have loved. The central section of the book enacts Clare’s own belief in the creative forms of nature itself: 'I found the poems in the fields / And only wrote them down’. Here are two outsiders working at poetry from the underside of nature, Clare now 'in a brown huff’, Wisdom snaring 'a warren with a snigger of wires’. Using a mixture of sonnets, Romani language, concrete poetry, and the dynamics of birdsong, Morley conjures a marvellous sense of nature as intimacy, something precise yet loaded and of immense importance to us. --George Szirtes

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Carcanet Poetry
• Seitenzahl: 93
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847772725
• Artikelnr.: 39498420

Autorenporträt

David Morley is the cofounder of the writing program in the department of English and comparative literary studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing and the poetry collections Enchantment, The Invisible Kings, and Scientific Papers . He has written for the Guardian and Poetry Review and is a recipient of the Templar Poetry Prize, an Arts Council of England Writers Award, an Eric Gregory Award, the Raymond Williams Prize, and a Hawthornden Fellowship.